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Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient

Patients returning from travel to a foreign country often present with atypical infections that can present as diagnostic challenges. Although rarely seen in the United States, Salmonella infections are commonly seen in Sub-Saharan Africa. The common clinical manifestations of Salmonella infection i...

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Autores principales: Lin, Christina, Patel, Satya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789063
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9122
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description Patients returning from travel to a foreign country often present with atypical infections that can present as diagnostic challenges. Although rarely seen in the United States, Salmonella infections are commonly seen in Sub-Saharan Africa. The common clinical manifestations of Salmonella infection include fever and diarrhea; however, about 5% of cases of non-typhi Salmonella progress to bacteremia. Here, we present a case of a unique presentation of Salmonella infection manifesting as a prostatic abscess in an immunocompetent patient. 
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spelling pubmed-74170932020-08-11 Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient Lin, Christina Patel, Satya Cureus Internal Medicine Patients returning from travel to a foreign country often present with atypical infections that can present as diagnostic challenges. Although rarely seen in the United States, Salmonella infections are commonly seen in Sub-Saharan Africa. The common clinical manifestations of Salmonella infection include fever and diarrhea; however, about 5% of cases of non-typhi Salmonella progress to bacteremia. Here, we present a case of a unique presentation of Salmonella infection manifesting as a prostatic abscess in an immunocompetent patient.  Cureus 2020-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7417093/ /pubmed/32789063 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9122 Text en Copyright © 2020, Lin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lin, Christina
Patel, Satya
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title Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_fullStr Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full_unstemmed Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_short Salmonella Prostatic Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort salmonella prostatic abscess in an immunocompetent patient
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789063
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