Cecal Perforation in the Setting of Campylobacter jejuni Infection

Campylobacter infection is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, yet life-threatening complications are extremely rare. We present a 32-year-old previously healthy man who presented with dysentery from Campylobacter jejuni, which was complicated by cecal perforation and secondary...

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Autores principales: Jain, Seema, Bettner, Weston, Olevian, Dane C., Yadav, Dhiraj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32042841
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000268
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author Jain, Seema
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description Campylobacter infection is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, yet life-threatening complications are extremely rare. We present a 32-year-old previously healthy man who presented with dysentery from Campylobacter jejuni, which was complicated by cecal perforation and secondary bacterial peritonitis.
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spelling pubmed-69462052020-02-10 Cecal Perforation in the Setting of Campylobacter jejuni Infection Jain, Seema Bettner, Weston Olevian, Dane C. Yadav, Dhiraj ACG Case Rep J Case Report Campylobacter infection is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide, yet life-threatening complications are extremely rare. We present a 32-year-old previously healthy man who presented with dysentery from Campylobacter jejuni, which was complicated by cecal perforation and secondary bacterial peritonitis. Wolters Kluwer 2019-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6946205/ /pubmed/32042841 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000268 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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Jain, Seema
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Yadav, Dhiraj
Cecal Perforation in the Setting of Campylobacter jejuni Infection
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title_short Cecal Perforation in the Setting of Campylobacter jejuni Infection
title_sort cecal perforation in the setting of campylobacter jejuni infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946205/
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