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Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report

Salmonella enteritidis is an individual serotype of S. enterica which can cause gastroenteritis in humans. In the case of a mild primary infection, bacteremia and phlegmon, as well as other types of extraintestinal Salmonella infection, may go undiagnosed. A 64-year-old female presents with a one-we...

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Autores principales: Zaalishvili, Zurabi, Didbaridze, Tamar, Gogokhia, Nino, Asanidze, Besik, Akhmeteli, Lali, Saginashvili, Liana, Maziashvili, Giorgi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36059369
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27545
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author Zaalishvili, Zurabi
Didbaridze, Tamar
Gogokhia, Nino
Asanidze, Besik
Akhmeteli, Lali
Saginashvili, Liana
Maziashvili, Giorgi
author_facet Zaalishvili, Zurabi
Didbaridze, Tamar
Gogokhia, Nino
Asanidze, Besik
Akhmeteli, Lali
Saginashvili, Liana
Maziashvili, Giorgi
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description Salmonella enteritidis is an individual serotype of S. enterica which can cause gastroenteritis in humans. In the case of a mild primary infection, bacteremia and phlegmon, as well as other types of extraintestinal Salmonella infection, may go undiagnosed. A 64-year-old female presents with a one-week history of fatigue, fever, and low back pain. She recently noticed a progressively growing mass in her lower back, along with swelling and redness of the surrounding skin. The patient is a nursing home resident who has been immobilized since a fall one month before the presentation. The bacterial culture of discharge from the infected area was found to be positive for S. enteritidis, and the diagnosis of the torso phlegmon was made. The patient underwent surgical removal of the phlegmon and clinically improved after post-operative treatment. After evaluating geographic location, time of the year, and host factors such as relative immobility, extremes of age, and immunosuppressive conditions, S. enteritidis should be considered in a differential diagnosis of torso phlegmon.
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spelling pubmed-94286192022-09-03 Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report Zaalishvili, Zurabi Didbaridze, Tamar Gogokhia, Nino Asanidze, Besik Akhmeteli, Lali Saginashvili, Liana Maziashvili, Giorgi Cureus General Surgery Salmonella enteritidis is an individual serotype of S. enterica which can cause gastroenteritis in humans. In the case of a mild primary infection, bacteremia and phlegmon, as well as other types of extraintestinal Salmonella infection, may go undiagnosed. A 64-year-old female presents with a one-week history of fatigue, fever, and low back pain. She recently noticed a progressively growing mass in her lower back, along with swelling and redness of the surrounding skin. The patient is a nursing home resident who has been immobilized since a fall one month before the presentation. The bacterial culture of discharge from the infected area was found to be positive for S. enteritidis, and the diagnosis of the torso phlegmon was made. The patient underwent surgical removal of the phlegmon and clinically improved after post-operative treatment. After evaluating geographic location, time of the year, and host factors such as relative immobility, extremes of age, and immunosuppressive conditions, S. enteritidis should be considered in a differential diagnosis of torso phlegmon. Cureus 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9428619/ /pubmed/36059369 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27545 Text en Copyright © 2022, Zaalishvili et al. https://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 author and source are credited.
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Zaalishvili, Zurabi
Didbaridze, Tamar
Gogokhia, Nino
Asanidze, Besik
Akhmeteli, Lali
Saginashvili, Liana
Maziashvili, Giorgi
Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title_full Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title_fullStr Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title_short Salmonella enteritidis Phlegmon in an Elderly Female: A Case Report
title_sort salmonella enteritidis phlegmon in an elderly female: a case report
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36059369
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27545
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