Case report: fatal Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and sepsis.
The authors report a case of overwhelming Pseudomonas pneumonia with sepsis and death in a 54-year-old male; death resulted from jacuzzi exposure in an immunocompetent host. The patient died 24 hours after hospital admission from gram negative sepsis shock.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, NJ, USA.
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Eisenberg
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D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology*; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000382:microbiology*