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Chronic Serratia marcescens sternal infection presenting 13 years after coronary artery surgery

INTRODUCTION: Serratia marcescens is a facultative anaerobic bacillus that very rarely causes sternal infections. We describe a sternal abscess resulting from chronic S. marcescens infection that presented 13 years after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 71-year-ol...

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Autores principales: Chinn, Ashley, Knabel, Michael, Sanger, James R., Pagel, Paul S., Almassi, G. Hossein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31445500
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.08.007