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A Rare Case of Salmonella Gastroenteritis Presenting as Aspiration Pneumonia With Pleural Empyema in an Immunocompetent Patient

Non-typhoidal salmonella (NTS) can cause infections ranging from self-limited chronic carriers to gastroenteritis, bacteremia, and extraintestinal infections. Pulmonary involvement, particularly empyema, is quite rare and generally found in immunosuppressed individuals. We present a case of salmonel...

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Autores principales: Mehmood, Asif, Amin, Muhammad Fahad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10166423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37168190
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37192