Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis) is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, oxidase(+) and catalase(+), obligate aerobe commonly found in soil or water. It has also been found in human intestinal microbiota and more rarely in hospital settings and is typically associated with opportunistic infections. Althou...

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Autores principales: Smith, John C, Comianos, Marco, Tang, Wesley, Sarvepalli, Satish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505151
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31172
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author Smith, John C
Comianos, Marco
Tang, Wesley
Sarvepalli, Satish
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Tang, Wesley
Sarvepalli, Satish
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description Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis) is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, oxidase(+) and catalase(+), obligate aerobe commonly found in soil or water. It has also been found in human intestinal microbiota and more rarely in hospital settings and is typically associated with opportunistic infections. Although it has intrinsic resistance to many commonly used antibiotics, it is increasingly found to have developed antibiotic resistance. We present a rare case of A. faecalis osteomyelitis in a patient with a chronic diabetic foot ulcer.
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spelling pubmed-97289822022-12-08 Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Smith, John C Comianos, Marco Tang, Wesley Sarvepalli, Satish Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis) is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, oxidase(+) and catalase(+), obligate aerobe commonly found in soil or water. It has also been found in human intestinal microbiota and more rarely in hospital settings and is typically associated with opportunistic infections. Although it has intrinsic resistance to many commonly used antibiotics, it is increasingly found to have developed antibiotic resistance. We present a rare case of A. faecalis osteomyelitis in a patient with a chronic diabetic foot ulcer. Cureus 2022-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9728982/ /pubmed/36505151 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31172 Text en Copyright © 2022, Smith 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.
spellingShingle Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Smith, John C
Comianos, Marco
Tang, Wesley
Sarvepalli, Satish
Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
title Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
title_full Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
title_fullStr Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
title_full_unstemmed Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
title_short Right Lower Extremity Osteomyelitis With Alcaligenes faecalis in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
title_sort right lower extremity osteomyelitis with alcaligenes faecalis in a patient with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus
topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505151
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31172
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