Chromobacterium violaceum causing deadly sepsis

Infections caused by Chromobacterium violaceum are extremely rare but can be relatively fatal in septicemia. We report a case of a 76 year old female who presented with pustules in the skin and later developed into septicemia. She succumbed to the illness despite escalating the antibiotic therapy to...

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Autores principales: Sachu, Arun, Antony, Sunil, Mathew, Philip, Sunny, Sanjo, Koshy, Jency, Kumar, Vijaya, Mathew, Renu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7502149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994909
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijm.v12i4.3941
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Sumario:Infections caused by Chromobacterium violaceum are extremely rare but can be relatively fatal in septicemia. We report a case of a 76 year old female who presented with pustules in the skin and later developed into septicemia. She succumbed to the illness despite escalating the antibiotic therapy to meropenem. To the best of our knowledge this is the 16(th) case report from India.

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