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Necrotizing haemorrhagic colitis caused by resistant Shigella flexneri. Report of a case
O P Adams1, P N Levett, J K Cruickshank
1Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados, W.I.
The West Indian Medical Journal
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of fatal infection with Shigella flexneri is reported. The 19-year-old male patient who presented with fulminating haemorrhagic colitis died nine days after the onset of symptoms. The infecting strain of Shigella flexneri was resistant to multiple antimicrobial agents, including amoxycillin, co-trimoxazole and chloramphenicol.