Plesiomonas shigelloides sepsis in a thalassemia intermedia patient.
Bacteremia due to Plesiomonas shigelloides was associated with rapidly fulminant septicemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation and massive adrenal hemorrhage in a splenectomized patient suffering from thalassemia intermedia who was treated with hydroxyurea. P. shigelloides was isolated in blood cultures; despite a vigorous combination of antibiotics the patient died after 24 h in the ICU. Lethal sepsis due to P. shigelloides has not previously been reported in Greece.
Tzanetea
Revekka
R
First Department of Medicine, University of Athens Medical School at Laikon Hospital, Greece.
Konstantopoulos
Kostas
K
Xanthaki
Anna
A
Kalotychou
Vassiliki
V
Spiliopoulou
Chara
C
Michalopoulos
Argyris
A
Rombos
Yannis
Y
D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000150:complications; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D016981:Plesiomonas / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications; D013156:Splenectomy; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000150:complications*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents