First case of Chlorella wound infection in a human in Australia

A 30-year-old man developed an infected knee wound 2 days after jumping his bicycle into a freshwater dam. He required repeated debridement and tissue grew bright green colonies typical of the alga Chlorella plus Aeromonas hydrophila. This, and one previously reported case, responded to surgical deb...

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Autores principales: Hart, J, Mooney, L, Arthur, I, Inglis, T J J, Murray, R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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New Microbes in Humans - New Resistant Microbes in Humans
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356359
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nmi2.50
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description A 30-year-old man developed an infected knee wound 2 days after jumping his bicycle into a freshwater dam. He required repeated debridement and tissue grew bright green colonies typical of the alga Chlorella plus Aeromonas hydrophila. This, and one previously reported case, responded to surgical debridement and careful wound management.
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spelling pubmed-41845832014-10-29 First case of Chlorella wound infection in a human in Australia Hart, J Mooney, L Arthur, I Inglis, T J J Murray, R New Microbes New Infect New Microbes in Humans - New Resistant Microbes in Humans A 30-year-old man developed an infected knee wound 2 days after jumping his bicycle into a freshwater dam. He required repeated debridement and tissue grew bright green colonies typical of the alga Chlorella plus Aeromonas hydrophila. This, and one previously reported case, responded to surgical debridement and careful wound management. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-07 2014-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4184583/ /pubmed/25356359 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nmi2.50 Text en © 2014 The Authors. New Microbes and New Infections published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short First case of Chlorella wound infection in a human in Australia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184583/
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