Aeromonas species endogenous endophthalmitis

INTRODUCTION: Aeromonas spp. are Gram-negative bacteria classically associated with water sources and a variety of clinical infections in humans. CASE PRESENTATION: A 79-year-old female patient presented with gastroenteritis with associated Aeromonas spp. bloodstream infection. Two days after admiss...

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Autores principales: Ryan, Laura, Higgins, Gareth, Doyle, Maeve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmmcr.0.005094
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Aeromonas spp. are Gram-negative bacteria classically associated with water sources and a variety of clinical infections in humans. CASE PRESENTATION: A 79-year-old female patient presented with gastroenteritis with associated Aeromonas spp. bloodstream infection. Two days after admission she developed eye symptoms and was diagnosed with endophthalmitis and underwent emergency evisceration and implant. Aeromonas spp. was also recovered from intra-ocular samples. CONCLUSION: In this case gastroenteritis caused by Aeromonas spp. was complicated by bloodstream infection which seeded to the eye, resulting in rapidly progressive endogenous endophthalmitis.

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