Soft tissue infection and bacteremia caused by Shewanella putrefaciens.
Shewanella putrefaciens is as yet rarely responsible for clinical syndromes in humans. However, a case involving multiple organs in an elderly male under treatment with appropriate steroids confirms that attention should be devoted to unusual pathogens.
Division of Infectious Diseases. Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Virology, Bolzano Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy. leonardo.pagani@asbz.it
Leonardo
L
Pagani
Adolf
A
Lang
Claudio
C
Vedovelli
Oswald
O
Moling
Giovanni
G
Rimenti
Raffaele
R
Pristerà
Peter
P
Mian
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020614:Shewanella putrefaciens / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D018461:Soft Tissue Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology