Campylobacter fetus thyroid gland abscess in a young immunocompetent woman

Campylobacter species are mostly associated with intestinal infections. Campylobacter fetus, however, can cause bacteremia and extra-intestinal infections especially in immunosuppressed patients. To the best of our knowledge, we present the second case of C. fetus causing thyroiditis and thyroid abs...

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Autores principales: El Beayni, Nancy K., Araj, George F., Beydoun, Sarah, Kozah, Maria, Tabbarah, Zuhayr
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Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6938908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31908945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00681
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author El Beayni, Nancy K.
Araj, George F.
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description Campylobacter species are mostly associated with intestinal infections. Campylobacter fetus, however, can cause bacteremia and extra-intestinal infections especially in immunosuppressed patients. To the best of our knowledge, we present the second case of C. fetus causing thyroiditis and thyroid abscess in an immunocompetent young woman.
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spelling pubmed-69389082020-01-06 Campylobacter fetus thyroid gland abscess in a young immunocompetent woman El Beayni, Nancy K. Araj, George F. Beydoun, Sarah Kozah, Maria Tabbarah, Zuhayr IDCases Article Campylobacter species are mostly associated with intestinal infections. Campylobacter fetus, however, can cause bacteremia and extra-intestinal infections especially in immunosuppressed patients. To the best of our knowledge, we present the second case of C. fetus causing thyroiditis and thyroid abscess in an immunocompetent young woman. Elsevier 2019-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6938908/ /pubmed/31908945 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00681 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Campylobacter fetus thyroid gland abscess in a young immunocompetent woman
title_fullStr Campylobacter fetus thyroid gland abscess in a young immunocompetent woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6938908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31908945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00681
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