Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review

An elderly patient was admitted with sepsis to a community hospital. The individual was found to have a foot wound infested with maggots, and clinical evidence of cellulitis. A blood culture was positive on day 2 with Ignatzschineria indica . The patient was treated successfully with a combination o...

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Autores principales: Deslandes, Vincent, Haney, Colleen, Bernard, Kathryn, Desjardins, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000078
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description An elderly patient was admitted with sepsis to a community hospital. The individual was found to have a foot wound infested with maggots, and clinical evidence of cellulitis. A blood culture was positive on day 2 with Ignatzschineria indica . The patient was treated successfully with a combination of antibiotics and manual removal of the maggots. Poor living conditions were central to his presentation.
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spelling pubmed-75250562020-10-14 Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review Deslandes, Vincent Haney, Colleen Bernard, Kathryn Desjardins, Marc Access Microbiol Case Report An elderly patient was admitted with sepsis to a community hospital. The individual was found to have a foot wound infested with maggots, and clinical evidence of cellulitis. A blood culture was positive on day 2 with Ignatzschineria indica . The patient was treated successfully with a combination of antibiotics and manual removal of the maggots. Poor living conditions were central to his presentation. Microbiology Society 2019-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7525056/ /pubmed/33062937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000078 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Deslandes, Vincent
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Bernard, Kathryn
Desjardins, Marc
Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
title Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
title_full Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
title_short Ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
title_sort ignatzschineria indica bacteremia in a patient with a maggot-infested heel ulcer: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000078
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