title: [Follow-up after non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteraemia is important due to risk of endovascular infection].
abstract: An 81-year-old male with atherosclerosis had an episode of bacteraemia with Salmonella dublin six weeks prior to admission to hospital. He presented with confusion, fever and abdominal pain. Blood cultures revealed S. dublin, and an 18F-fluor deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography showed aortitis. Ceftriaxon and ciprofloxacin was administered. The patient was not a candidate for surgery and two weeks later he died from multiple organ failure. Follow-up visits with blood cultures after the first bacteraemia episode might have allowed for earlier diagnosis of the relapse.
authors.affiliation: Klinisk Mikrobiologisk Afdeling, Odense Universitetshospital, J.B. Winsløws Vej 21, 2., 5000 Odense C. thomas.sydenham@dadlnet.dk.
authors.forename: Thomas Vognbjerg
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Sydenham
authors.forename: Åse Bengård
authors.initials: ÅB
authors.lastname: Andersen
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001025:Aortitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D019779:Salmonella enterica; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18