Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review

The most usual presentation of Plesiomonas shigelloides infection is an acute gastroenteritis, and extraintestinal manifestations are extremely rare. We reported the first neonate with P. shigelloides meningoencephalitis in China and reviewed the twelve cases previously reported. Our report adds fur...

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Autores principales: Xia, Fang-Qin, Liu, Pei-Ning, Zhou, Yong-Hai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25599746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-014-0107-1
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description The most usual presentation of Plesiomonas shigelloides infection is an acute gastroenteritis, and extraintestinal manifestations are extremely rare. We reported the first neonate with P. shigelloides meningoencephalitis in China and reviewed the twelve cases previously reported. Our report adds further awareness on Plesiomonas shigelloides meningoencephalitis in neonate and points out the importance of an early diagnosis and the use of sensitive antibiotics treatment to this fatal infection.
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spelling pubmed-43114552015-01-31 Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review Xia, Fang-Qin Liu, Pei-Ning Zhou, Yong-Hai Ital J Pediatr Case Report The most usual presentation of Plesiomonas shigelloides infection is an acute gastroenteritis, and extraintestinal manifestations are extremely rare. We reported the first neonate with P. shigelloides meningoencephalitis in China and reviewed the twelve cases previously reported. Our report adds further awareness on Plesiomonas shigelloides meningoencephalitis in neonate and points out the importance of an early diagnosis and the use of sensitive antibiotics treatment to this fatal infection. BioMed Central 2015-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4311455/ /pubmed/25599746 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-014-0107-1 Text en © Xia et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review
title Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review
title_full Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review
title_fullStr Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review
title_short Meningoencephalitis caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides in a Chinese neonate: case report and literature review
title_sort meningoencephalitis caused by plesiomonas shigelloides in a chinese neonate: case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25599746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-014-0107-1
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