title: Pleural empyema due toSalmonella entericaserovar Enteritidis in an immunocompetent elderly patient: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pleural empyema as a focal infection due toSalmonella entericaserovar Enteritidis is rare and most commonly described among immunosuppressed patients or patients who suffer from sickle cell anaemia and lung malignancies.
  
  
  METHODS
  Here, we present an 81-year-old immunocompetent Greek woman with bacteraemia and pleural empyema due toSalmonellaEnteritidis without any gastrointestinal symptoms.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In our case, we suggest that patient's pleural effusion secondary to heart failure was complicated by empyema and that focal intravascular infection was the cause of bacteraemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Panagiota
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Xaplanteri
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Stelios F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Assimakopoulos
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Kostis
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Karachalios
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Siagris
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lekkou
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Evangelos D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Anastassiou
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Spiliopoulou
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Charalambos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gogos
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Fevronia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kolonitsiou
keywords: Salmonella Enteritidis; ciprofloxacin; dyspnea; focal Salmonella Enteritidis infections; pleural empyema