[Chromobacterium violaceum peritonitis: case report and literature review].
We report a case of Chromobacterium violaceum infection and we review the literature for all published cases. C. violaceum grew from a peritoneal fluid of a 47-year-old woman operated on for peritonitis following perforative gastroduodenal ulcer. She was just coming back from a 1-month-holyday in French Guyana, where she might have been in contact with this micro-organism. The patient fully recovered after surgical management associated with antibiotic therapy consisting of ofloxacin plus piperacillin-tazobactam. Among the more than a hundred of published cases of human infections with C. violaceum that we retrieved, there was not any other case of peritonitis.
Watine
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Service de Biologie Polyvalente, Centre Hospitalier Général, Rodez. j.watine@ch-rodez.fr
Courtade
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Pham
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Lievrouw
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Dubourdieu
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Guérin
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Gineston
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D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002861:Chromobacterium; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010439:Peptic Ulcer Perforation / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents