title: Plesiomonas shigelloides sepsis in a thalassemia intermedia patient.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, University of Athens Medical School at Laikon Hospital, Greece.
authors.forename: Revekka
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tzanetea
authors.forename: Kostas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konstantopoulos
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Xanthaki
authors.forename: Vassiliki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kalotychou
authors.forename: Chara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spiliopoulou
authors.forename: Argyris
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Michalopoulos
authors.forename: Yannis
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rombos
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents