A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult

Epiglottitis has been mainly associated with childhood infection with Haemophilis influenzae type B but cases of adult epiglottitis are increasing. We report here a case of adult epiglottitis and present evidence that it was caused by Staphylococcus aureus. A 48-year old patient with clinical sympto...

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Autores principales: Harris, Clare, Sharkey, Lisa, Koshy, George, Simler, Nicola, Karas, Johannis Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2012
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24470933
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.e3
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author Harris, Clare
Sharkey, Lisa
Koshy, George
Simler, Nicola
Karas, Johannis Andreas
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description Epiglottitis has been mainly associated with childhood infection with Haemophilis influenzae type B but cases of adult epiglottitis are increasing. We report here a case of adult epiglottitis and present evidence that it was caused by Staphylococcus aureus. A 48-year old patient with clinical symptoms of epiglottitis grew Staphylococcus aureus in pure culture from an epiglottal swab. Staphylococcus aureus should be considered as a potential pathogen in adult epiglottitis.
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spelling pubmed-38926452014-01-27 A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult Harris, Clare Sharkey, Lisa Koshy, George Simler, Nicola Karas, Johannis Andreas Infect Dis Rep Brief Report Epiglottitis has been mainly associated with childhood infection with Haemophilis influenzae type B but cases of adult epiglottitis are increasing. We report here a case of adult epiglottitis and present evidence that it was caused by Staphylococcus aureus. A 48-year old patient with clinical symptoms of epiglottitis grew Staphylococcus aureus in pure culture from an epiglottal swab. Staphylococcus aureus should be considered as a potential pathogen in adult epiglottitis. PAGEPress Publications 2012-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3892645/ /pubmed/24470933 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.e3 Text en ©Copyright C. Harris et al., 2012 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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title A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult
title_full A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult
title_fullStr A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult
title_short A rare case of acute epiglottitis due to Staphylococcus aureus in an adult
title_sort rare case of acute epiglottitis due to staphylococcus aureus in an adult
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24470933
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2012.e3
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