Acute colitis and bacteremia due to Campylobacter fetus.
An acute febrile illness with dysentery and colitis developed in a 26-year-old man following a wilderness outing. Campylobacter fetus ssp. jejuni was subsequently grown on blood cultures drawn during the acute illness and 9 days later when the patient was asymptomatic. Proctosigmoidoscopic and histopathologic evidence of acute colitis was present on admission and resolved on follow-up examination. Campylobacter fetus spp. jejuni infection should be considered in the etiology of acute infectious colitis.
D000328:Adult; D002169:Campylobacter Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003092:Colitis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology