Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis

The Chryseobacterium species are inhabitants of soil and water. In the hospital environment, they exist in water systems and wet surfaces. We report here a case of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in a diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis. He was successfully treated with Vancomyc...

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Autores principales: Dias, M., Prashant, K., Pai, R., Scaria, B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206682
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.73460
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author Dias, M.
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description The Chryseobacterium species are inhabitants of soil and water. In the hospital environment, they exist in water systems and wet surfaces. We report here a case of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in a diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis. He was successfully treated with Vancomycin and ceftazidime for three weeks with good clinical outcome. This is the first case reported in dialysis patients from India.
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spelling pubmed-30089492011-01-04 Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis Dias, M. Prashant, K. Pai, R. Scaria, B. Indian J Nephrol Case Report The Chryseobacterium species are inhabitants of soil and water. In the hospital environment, they exist in water systems and wet surfaces. We report here a case of Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in a diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis. He was successfully treated with Vancomycin and ceftazidime for three weeks with good clinical outcome. This is the first case reported in dialysis patients from India. Medknow Publications 2010-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3008949/ /pubmed/21206682 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.73460 Text en © Indian Journal of Nephrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Dias, M.
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Pai, R.
Scaria, B.
Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
title Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
title_full Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
title_fullStr Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
title_full_unstemmed Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
title_short Chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
title_sort chryseobacterium meningosepticum bacteremia in diabetic nephropathy patient on hemodialysis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3008949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21206682
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-4065.73460
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