Ewingella Americana: An Emerging True Pathogen

Infections caused by Ewingella americana have been rarely reported in the literature. Most of the cases that have been reported were among the immunocompromised patients. We report a case of E. americana causing osteomyelitis and septic arthritis of the shoulder joint in a previous intravenous drug...

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Autores principales: Hassan, Syed, Amer, Syed, Mittal, Chetan, Sharma, Rishi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3384899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22762003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/730720
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description Infections caused by Ewingella americana have been rarely reported in the literature. Most of the cases that have been reported were among the immunocompromised patients. We report a case of E. americana causing osteomyelitis and septic arthritis of the shoulder joint in a previous intravenous drug abuser. The causative pathogen was identified by synovial fluid analysis and culture.
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spelling pubmed-33848992012-07-03 Ewingella Americana: An Emerging True Pathogen Hassan, Syed Amer, Syed Mittal, Chetan Sharma, Rishi Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Infections caused by Ewingella americana have been rarely reported in the literature. Most of the cases that have been reported were among the immunocompromised patients. We report a case of E. americana causing osteomyelitis and septic arthritis of the shoulder joint in a previous intravenous drug abuser. The causative pathogen was identified by synovial fluid analysis and culture. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3384899/ /pubmed/22762003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/730720 Text en Copyright © 2012 Syed Hassan 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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