[Non-toxigenic hemolytic Vibrio cholerae non-O1 non-O139 fatal septicemia. Report of one case].
We report a 70-year-old woman, who had recently consumed shellfish, that was admitted to the intensive care unit with septic shock and died 19 hours later due to a multi-organic failure. Microbiological, serological and molecular assays confirmed a hemolytic tdh+ Vibrio cholerae non-01, non 0139 as the etiologic agent.
Briceño L
Isabel
I
Hospital Naval Almirante Nef, Valparaíso, Chile.
Puebla A
Claudio
C
Guerra A
Francisco
F
Jensen F
Daniela
D
Núñez B
Harold
H
Ulloa F
María T
MT
Osorio A
Carlos G
CG
D000368:Aged; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006461:Hemolysis / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D012758:Shellfish / Q000382:microbiology*; D044163:Vibrio cholerae non-O1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity*