Swimming with the Pigs: A Case of Severe Soft Tissue Infection during a Caribbean Vacation

A 74-year-old man presented to the emergency department with severe right leg cellulitis following a trip to the Bahamas where he swam in both chlorinated pools and the ocean. His blood cultures grew Shewanella species, a marine pathogen known to cause disease in humans, following exposure to seawat...

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Autores principales: Dretler, Alexandra W., Jacob, Jesse T., Rouphael, Nadine G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30473894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4092609
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description A 74-year-old man presented to the emergency department with severe right leg cellulitis following a trip to the Bahamas where he swam in both chlorinated pools and the ocean. His blood cultures grew Shewanella species, a marine pathogen known to cause disease in humans, following exposure to seawater. He was treated with cefepime for a total of two weeks without needing any surgical intervention. The patient had complete resolution of infection and was able to return to his activities of daily living.
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spelling pubmed-62204012018-11-25 Swimming with the Pigs: A Case of Severe Soft Tissue Infection during a Caribbean Vacation Dretler, Alexandra W. Jacob, Jesse T. Rouphael, Nadine G. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report A 74-year-old man presented to the emergency department with severe right leg cellulitis following a trip to the Bahamas where he swam in both chlorinated pools and the ocean. His blood cultures grew Shewanella species, a marine pathogen known to cause disease in humans, following exposure to seawater. He was treated with cefepime for a total of two weeks without needing any surgical intervention. The patient had complete resolution of infection and was able to return to his activities of daily living. Hindawi 2018-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6220401/ /pubmed/30473894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4092609 Text en Copyright © 2018 Alexandra W. Dretler et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Swimming with the Pigs: A Case of Severe Soft Tissue Infection during a Caribbean Vacation
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