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Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman

Whipple's disease is a very rare systemic infectious disease, and very few cases have been reported. However, it can be fatal if not diagnosed and treated appropriately. The major clinical manifestations of this disease are usually digestive and nervous system symptoms. The majority of patients...

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Autores principales: Wang, Sheng, Xia, Demeng, Wu, Jianghong, Jia, Dandan, Li, Lei, Xu, Shuogui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8575073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34760862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.729595
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author Wang, Sheng
Xia, Demeng
Wu, Jianghong
Jia, Dandan
Li, Lei
Xu, Shuogui
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Xia, Demeng
Wu, Jianghong
Jia, Dandan
Li, Lei
Xu, Shuogui
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description Whipple's disease is a very rare systemic infectious disease, and very few cases have been reported. However, it can be fatal if not diagnosed and treated appropriately. The major clinical manifestations of this disease are usually digestive and nervous system symptoms. The majority of patients are male and between 40 and 50 years old. Although respiratory symptoms of this disease have rarely been reported, they pose a serious threat to the lives of the patients, especially when they progress to severe pneumonia. During admission to the hospital, Acinetobacter baumannii infection makes treatment more difficult. While most patients are middle-aged men, more attention should be given to the diagnosis and treatment of affected young women. To our knowledge, the case presented in the study is the first case of Tropheryma whipplei infection that resulted in severe pneumonia and was complicated by A. baumannii infection during treatment. We hope that our study can serve as a reference for the diagnosis and treatment of related cases in the future.
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spelling pubmed-85750732021-11-09 Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman Wang, Sheng Xia, Demeng Wu, Jianghong Jia, Dandan Li, Lei Xu, Shuogui Front Public Health Public Health Whipple's disease is a very rare systemic infectious disease, and very few cases have been reported. However, it can be fatal if not diagnosed and treated appropriately. The major clinical manifestations of this disease are usually digestive and nervous system symptoms. The majority of patients are male and between 40 and 50 years old. Although respiratory symptoms of this disease have rarely been reported, they pose a serious threat to the lives of the patients, especially when they progress to severe pneumonia. During admission to the hospital, Acinetobacter baumannii infection makes treatment more difficult. While most patients are middle-aged men, more attention should be given to the diagnosis and treatment of affected young women. To our knowledge, the case presented in the study is the first case of Tropheryma whipplei infection that resulted in severe pneumonia and was complicated by A. baumannii infection during treatment. We hope that our study can serve as a reference for the diagnosis and treatment of related cases in the future. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8575073/ /pubmed/34760862 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.729595 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wang, Xia, Wu, Jia, Li and Xu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Li, Lei
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Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman
title Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman
title_full Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman
title_fullStr Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman
title_full_unstemmed Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman
title_short Severe Pneumonia Caused by Infection With Tropheryma whipplei Complicated With Acinetobacter baumannii Infection: A Case Report Involving a Young Woman
title_sort severe pneumonia caused by infection with tropheryma whipplei complicated with acinetobacter baumannii infection: a case report involving a young woman
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8575073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34760862
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.729595
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