Shewanella-Related Bacteremia and Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report

Shewanella algae and Shewanella putrefaciens have been implicated for causing serious infections in humans, including disseminated infection. We report the possible first case of Shewanella-related Fournier's gangrene and bacteremia caused in a 65-year-old Chinese male with nephrotic syndrome....

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Autores principales: Tang, Tommy Hing-cheung, Cheng, Naomi Hua-yin, Ho, Roy Tsz-chung, Chan, Helen Shuk-ying, Lam, Kwok-wai, Xavier, Jimenez, Wu, Tak-chiu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27704006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw148
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author Tang, Tommy Hing-cheung
Cheng, Naomi Hua-yin
Ho, Roy Tsz-chung
Chan, Helen Shuk-ying
Lam, Kwok-wai
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Wu, Tak-chiu
author_facet Tang, Tommy Hing-cheung
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description Shewanella algae and Shewanella putrefaciens have been implicated for causing serious infections in humans, including disseminated infection. We report the possible first case of Shewanella-related Fournier's gangrene and bacteremia caused in a 65-year-old Chinese male with nephrotic syndrome. He was successfully managed by surgical debridement and antibiotic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-50474262016-10-04 Shewanella-Related Bacteremia and Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report Tang, Tommy Hing-cheung Cheng, Naomi Hua-yin Ho, Roy Tsz-chung Chan, Helen Shuk-ying Lam, Kwok-wai Xavier, Jimenez Wu, Tak-chiu Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Shewanella algae and Shewanella putrefaciens have been implicated for causing serious infections in humans, including disseminated infection. We report the possible first case of Shewanella-related Fournier's gangrene and bacteremia caused in a 65-year-old Chinese male with nephrotic syndrome. He was successfully managed by surgical debridement and antibiotic therapy. Oxford University Press 2016-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5047426/ /pubmed/27704006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw148 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Wu, Tak-chiu
Shewanella-Related Bacteremia and Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report
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title_fullStr Shewanella-Related Bacteremia and Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Shewanella-Related Bacteremia and Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report
title_short Shewanella-Related Bacteremia and Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw148
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