Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult

Herein, we describe a bacteremia caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae that presented as liver abscesses. The patient had no risk factors for disseminated gonococcal infection. Periodic fever, skin rashes, and papules were present and the results of an abdominal computed tomography scan indicated the pres...

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Autores principales: Lee, Min Hye, Byun, Jongkyu, Jung, Myounghwa, Yang, John Jeongseok, Park, Ki-Ho, Moon, Soo-youn, Lee, Hee Joo, Lee, Mi Suk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844265
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2015.47.1.60
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author Lee, Min Hye
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description Herein, we describe a bacteremia caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae that presented as liver abscesses. The patient had no risk factors for disseminated gonococcal infection. Periodic fever, skin rashes, and papules were present and the results of an abdominal computed tomography scan indicated the presence of small liver abscesses. The results of blood culture and 16S rRNA sequencing of the bacterial isolates confirmed the presence of N. gonorrhoeae. The patient improved with antibiotic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-43844562015-04-03 Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult Lee, Min Hye Byun, Jongkyu Jung, Myounghwa Yang, John Jeongseok Park, Ki-Ho Moon, Soo-youn Lee, Hee Joo Lee, Mi Suk Infect Chemother Case Report Herein, we describe a bacteremia caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae that presented as liver abscesses. The patient had no risk factors for disseminated gonococcal infection. Periodic fever, skin rashes, and papules were present and the results of an abdominal computed tomography scan indicated the presence of small liver abscesses. The results of blood culture and 16S rRNA sequencing of the bacterial isolates confirmed the presence of N. gonorrhoeae. The patient improved with antibiotic therapy. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2015-03 2015-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4384456/ /pubmed/25844265 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2015.47.1.60 Text en Copyright © 2015 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lee, Min Hye
Byun, Jongkyu
Jung, Myounghwa
Yang, John Jeongseok
Park, Ki-Ho
Moon, Soo-youn
Lee, Hee Joo
Lee, Mi Suk
Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult
title Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult
title_full Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult
title_fullStr Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult
title_short Disseminated Gonococcal Infection Presenting as Bacteremia and Liver Abscesses in a Healthy Adult
title_sort disseminated gonococcal infection presenting as bacteremia and liver abscesses in a healthy adult
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844265
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2015.47.1.60
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