Neisseria cinerea in a Post-splenectomy Patient: A Rare Potentially Fatal Bacteremia

Neisseria cinerea is a commensal which usually resides in the human respiratory tract. Very rarely, the organism finds its way into the bloodstream causing severe bacteremia. So far, very few cases of Neisseria bacteremia have been reported. We report a case of a 78-year-old male, post-splenectomy, ...

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Autores principales: Patti, Ravikaran, Gupta, Sushilkumar S, Bhardwaj, Sharonlin, Jha, Prameeta, Ghatak, Arindam, Kupfer, Yizhak, Seneviratne, Chanaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30250769
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3007

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30250769
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3007

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