Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature

An elderly diabetic farmer presented with chronic nonhealing ulcer over the left foot, multiple liver abscesses, and right-sided pleural effusion. The patient developed septicemia and multiorgan failure. The pus grew pigment producing Chromobacterium violaceum. He was treated successfully with cipro...

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Autores principales: Khadanga, Sagar, Karuna, Tadepalli, Dugar, Dharmendra, Satapathy, Shakti Prasad
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28966500
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_21_17
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author Khadanga, Sagar
Karuna, Tadepalli
Dugar, Dharmendra
Satapathy, Shakti Prasad
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description An elderly diabetic farmer presented with chronic nonhealing ulcer over the left foot, multiple liver abscesses, and right-sided pleural effusion. The patient developed septicemia and multiorgan failure. The pus grew pigment producing Chromobacterium violaceum. He was treated successfully with ciprofloxacin for a total duration of 15 days. This case is reported for its rare clinical presentation and resemblance with melioidosis. Of the 200 C. violaceum cases reported across the globe, this is the 14(th) case from India and the oldest in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-56077672017-10-01 Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature Khadanga, Sagar Karuna, Tadepalli Dugar, Dharmendra Satapathy, Shakti Prasad J Lab Physicians Case Report An elderly diabetic farmer presented with chronic nonhealing ulcer over the left foot, multiple liver abscesses, and right-sided pleural effusion. The patient developed septicemia and multiorgan failure. The pus grew pigment producing Chromobacterium violaceum. He was treated successfully with ciprofloxacin for a total duration of 15 days. This case is reported for its rare clinical presentation and resemblance with melioidosis. Of the 200 C. violaceum cases reported across the globe, this is the 14(th) case from India and the oldest in the literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5607767/ /pubmed/28966500 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_21_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Khadanga, Sagar
Karuna, Tadepalli
Dugar, Dharmendra
Satapathy, Shakti Prasad
Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature
title Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature
title_full Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature
title_fullStr Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature
title_short Chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: A case report with review of literature
title_sort chromobacterium violaceum- induced sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction, resembling melioidosis in an elderly diabetic patient: a case report with review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28966500
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JLP.JLP_21_17
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