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
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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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author Sachu, Arun
Antony, Sunil
Mathew, Philip
Sunny, Sanjo
Koshy, Jency
Kumar, Vijaya
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description 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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spelling pubmed-75021492020-09-28 Chromobacterium violaceum causing deadly sepsis Sachu, Arun Antony, Sunil Mathew, Philip Sunny, Sanjo Koshy, Jency Kumar, Vijaya Mathew, Renu Iran J Microbiol Case Report 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. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7502149/ /pubmed/32994909 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijm.v12i4.3941 Text en Copyright© 2020 Iranian Society of Microbiology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences 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 work is properly cited.
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