A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?

A 44‐year‐old immunocompetent man with gastroenteritis received supportive care and empiric antibiotics. After an initial response, he developed septic shock. Blood cultures grew Gram‐positive bacilli with antibiotic adjustment. However, he succumbed within 36 h. After the patient's death, List...

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Autores principales: Wahab, Ahsan, Chaudhary, Siddique, Ahmad, Ali, Kollu, Vidya, Smith, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1338
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author Wahab, Ahsan
Chaudhary, Siddique
Ahmad, Ali
Kollu, Vidya
Smith, Susan
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description A 44‐year‐old immunocompetent man with gastroenteritis received supportive care and empiric antibiotics. After an initial response, he developed septic shock. Blood cultures grew Gram‐positive bacilli with antibiotic adjustment. However, he succumbed within 36 h. After the patient's death, Listeria monocytogenes was identified on blood culture.
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spelling pubmed-57718982018-01-26 A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected? Wahab, Ahsan Chaudhary, Siddique Ahmad, Ali Kollu, Vidya Smith, Susan Clin Case Rep Case Reports A 44‐year‐old immunocompetent man with gastroenteritis received supportive care and empiric antibiotics. After an initial response, he developed septic shock. Blood cultures grew Gram‐positive bacilli with antibiotic adjustment. However, he succumbed within 36 h. After the patient's death, Listeria monocytogenes was identified on blood culture. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5771898/ /pubmed/29375867 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1338 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
title A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
title_full A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
title_fullStr A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
title_full_unstemmed A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
title_short A life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
title_sort life‐devastating cause of gastroenteritis in an immunocompetent host: was it suspected?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1338
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