The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection

A case of liver abscess due to Bacillus cereus infection in an immunocompetent 59-year-old man is reported. Percutaneous drainage and antimicrobial therapy, with vancomycin and levofloxacin afterwards, have been demonstrated to be an appropriate treatment, leading to clinical and radiological cure.

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Autores principales: Alessandri-Bonetti, Mario, Vespasiani-Gentilucci, Umberto, Luppi, Giacomo, Angeletti, Silvia, Dicuonzo, Giordano, Picardi, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28025629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7438972
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author Alessandri-Bonetti, Mario
Vespasiani-Gentilucci, Umberto
Luppi, Giacomo
Angeletti, Silvia
Dicuonzo, Giordano
Picardi, Antonio
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description A case of liver abscess due to Bacillus cereus infection in an immunocompetent 59-year-old man is reported. Percutaneous drainage and antimicrobial therapy, with vancomycin and levofloxacin afterwards, have been demonstrated to be an appropriate treatment, leading to clinical and radiological cure.
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spelling pubmed-51534632016-12-26 The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection Alessandri-Bonetti, Mario Vespasiani-Gentilucci, Umberto Luppi, Giacomo Angeletti, Silvia Dicuonzo, Giordano Picardi, Antonio Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report A case of liver abscess due to Bacillus cereus infection in an immunocompetent 59-year-old man is reported. Percutaneous drainage and antimicrobial therapy, with vancomycin and levofloxacin afterwards, have been demonstrated to be an appropriate treatment, leading to clinical and radiological cure. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5153463/ /pubmed/28025629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7438972 Text en Copyright © 2016 Mario Alessandri-Bonetti et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Alessandri-Bonetti, Mario
Vespasiani-Gentilucci, Umberto
Luppi, Giacomo
Angeletti, Silvia
Dicuonzo, Giordano
Picardi, Antonio
The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection
title The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection
title_full The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection
title_fullStr The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection
title_full_unstemmed The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection
title_short The Liver as Another Possible Target Organ for Bacillus cereus Infection
title_sort liver as another possible target organ for bacillus cereus infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28025629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7438972
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