title: Secondary peritonitis caused by Streptomyces viridis.
abstract: Streptomyces organisms are soil inhabitants rarely causing nonmycetomic infections. We describe a case of secondary peritonitis caused by Streptomyces viridis in a chronic alcoholic patient who presented with fever, abdominal distension, and pain in the abdomen. The most likely source of infection was by inoculation through multiple paracenteses, done for treatment of ascites, before the patient came to our health care center. This is the second case report of Streptomyces peritonitis and the first case caused by Streptomyces viridis, which is usually found in the soil in our geographic region.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College Hospital, Chandigarh, India. drpriyadatta@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Priya
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: Shilpa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: Ruby
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Jagdish
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chander
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: van de Sande
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites / Q000601:surgery; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S