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.
Pagani
Leonardo
L
Division of Infectious Diseases. Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Virology, Bolzano Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy. leonardo.pagani@asbz.it
Lang
Adolf
A
Vedovelli
Claudio
C
Moling
Oswald
O
Rimenti
Giovanni
G
Pristerà
Raffaele
R
Mian
Peter
P
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