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.
Huebner
J
J
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Zürich, Switzerland.
Czerwenka
W
W
Gruner
E
E
von Graevenitz
A
A
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