Early Onset Prosthetic Joint Infection and Bacteremia due to Campylobacter fetus Subspecies fetus

Campylobacter fetus is a zoonotic pathogen that occasionally causes serious, relapsing, invasive disease, especially in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of relapsing C. fetus diarrheal illness in a 75-year-old woman which resulted in secondary bacteremia and seeding of the left knee prosthe...

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Autores principales: Dumic, Igor, Sengodan, Mohan, Franson, Joni J., Zea, Diego, Ramanan, Poornima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28928998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5892846
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Sumario:Campylobacter fetus is a zoonotic pathogen that occasionally causes serious, relapsing, invasive disease, especially in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of relapsing C. fetus diarrheal illness in a 75-year-old woman which resulted in secondary bacteremia and seeding of the left knee prosthetic joint. Patient responded favorably to debridement and retention of prosthesis in addition to six weeks of meropenem followed by chronic oral doxycycline suppressive therapy.

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