Campylobacter jejuni Bacteremia in the Term Infant A Rare Cause of Neonatal Hematochezia

Early-onset sepsis caused by Gram-negative spiral organisms is rarely reported, with Campylobacter fetus being a better known causative agent than other Campylobacter species. We report the case of a 2-day-old girl who presented with hematochezia and bacteremia caused by Campylobacter jejuni. She wa...

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Autores principales: Mizuno, Shinsuke, Yokoyama, Koji, Nukada, Takayuki, Ikeda, Yuka, Hara, Shigeto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022
Materias:
Maternal-Neonatal Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35027512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000003453
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Sumario:Early-onset sepsis caused by Gram-negative spiral organisms is rarely reported, with Campylobacter fetus being a better known causative agent than other Campylobacter species. We report the case of a 2-day-old girl who presented with hematochezia and bacteremia caused by Campylobacter jejuni. She was born full-term. Her family ate undercooked chicken, and Campylobacter enteritis was diagnosed before her birth.

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