Shigellemia in AIDS patients: case report and review of the literature.
Shigella bacteremia in adult patients is rare and is usually associated with immunosuppressive diseases. To date, 12 HIV-positive patients with Shigella bacteremia have been reported in the medical literature. We report a case of Shigella dysenteriae bacteremia in a 39-year-old HIV-positive patient. Although the patient presented with bloody and watery diarrhea, stool cultures failed to grow enteric pathogens. The patient responded well to appropriate antibiotic therapy.
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Huebner
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W
Czerwenka
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E
Gruner
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A
von Graevenitz
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000150:complications*; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000150:complications*; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012762:Shigella dysenteriae