Eikenella Corrodens, Cause of a Vulvar Abscess in a Diabetic Adult

We report a case of Eikenella corrodens causing vulvar abscess in a diabetic patient. Eikenella corrodens is a slow growing, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic, Gram-negative bacillus which is commensal of the oral cavity, intestinal and genital tracts. The most common clinical sources of this organis...

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Autores principales: Öztoprak, Nefise, Bayar, Ülkü, Çelebi, Güven, Basaran, Mustafa, Cömert, Füsun
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1791056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17485819
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/63565
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author Öztoprak, Nefise
Bayar, Ülkü
Çelebi, Güven
Basaran, Mustafa
Cömert, Füsun
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description We report a case of Eikenella corrodens causing vulvar abscess in a diabetic patient. Eikenella corrodens is a slow growing, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic, Gram-negative bacillus which is commensal of the oral cavity, intestinal and genital tracts. The most common clinical sources of this organism are human bite wounds, head and neck infections and respiratory tract infections. In our knowledge, the presented case is the first report of Eikenella corrodens causing vulvar abscess in a diabetic patient.
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spelling pubmed-17910562007-02-08 Eikenella Corrodens, Cause of a Vulvar Abscess in a Diabetic Adult Öztoprak, Nefise Bayar, Ülkü Çelebi, Güven Basaran, Mustafa Cömert, Füsun Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol Case Report We report a case of Eikenella corrodens causing vulvar abscess in a diabetic patient. Eikenella corrodens is a slow growing, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic, Gram-negative bacillus which is commensal of the oral cavity, intestinal and genital tracts. The most common clinical sources of this organism are human bite wounds, head and neck infections and respiratory tract infections. In our knowledge, the presented case is the first report of Eikenella corrodens causing vulvar abscess in a diabetic patient. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2007 2006-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC1791056/ /pubmed/17485819 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/63565 Text en Copyright © 2007 Nefise Öztoprak et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Eikenella Corrodens, Cause of a Vulvar Abscess in a Diabetic Adult
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1791056/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/63565
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