Streptococcus canis Bacteremia in a Renal Transplant Recipient

A middle-aged man presented with fever and shortness of breath. He had significant history of congestive heart disease and received deceased donor renal transplant 2 years prior to presentation. He was febrile and found to have sepsis. His initial blood cultures grew Streptococcus canis. Streptococc...

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Autores principales: Zaidi, Syed M. H., Eranki, Ambika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30929468
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619834592
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description A middle-aged man presented with fever and shortness of breath. He had significant history of congestive heart disease and received deceased donor renal transplant 2 years prior to presentation. He was febrile and found to have sepsis. His initial blood cultures grew Streptococcus canis. Streptococcus canis causes rare infection in humans, and this is most likely the first case in the renal transplant population.
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spelling pubmed-64447722019-04-09 Streptococcus canis Bacteremia in a Renal Transplant Recipient Zaidi, Syed M. H. Eranki, Ambika J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report A middle-aged man presented with fever and shortness of breath. He had significant history of congestive heart disease and received deceased donor renal transplant 2 years prior to presentation. He was febrile and found to have sepsis. His initial blood cultures grew Streptococcus canis. Streptococcus canis causes rare infection in humans, and this is most likely the first case in the renal transplant population. SAGE Publications 2019-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6444772/ /pubmed/30929468 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2324709619834592 Text en © 2019 American Federation for Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Streptococcus canis Bacteremia in a Renal Transplant Recipient
title_sort streptococcus canis bacteremia in a renal transplant recipient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30929468
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