Sepsis caused by Chromobacterium violaceum – probably the first case in Europe, or Macbeth read anew
| Autor: | Renata Budzynska-Nosal, Krzysztof Marczewski, Anna Jędruszczak, Marek Maciejewski, Marta Węgrzyn-Bąk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0303 health sciences
Flora biology 030306 microbiology Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Microbiology Sepsis 03 medical and health sciences medicine Waste Management and Disposal Chromobacterium violaceum Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Violacein 030304 developmental biology |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine. 26:508-510 |
| ISSN: | 1898-2263 1232-1966 |
| Popis: | Rare diseases, almost by definition, present us with diagnostic as well as therapeutic difficulties as. They also include infectious diseases outside endemic areas. Without expecting them, we are not preparing to fight them. Like Macbeth, we feel safe, convinced that tropical diseases do not reach us, like Birnam forest towards his castle. Nevertheless, the forest moved according to the prophecy of the three witches, and in a similar way tropical flora is moving towards us according to the predictions of environmentalists. This is illustrated by the history of the presented patient, who was admitted to hospital because of sepsis caused by Chromobacterium violaceum (CV), a Gram-negative facultatively anaerobic, oxidase-positive bacterium producing a dark violet antioxidant pigment called violacein. This is probably the first documented case report of sepsis in this part of the world. To the best of the authors' knowledge, the patient is the first to require dialysis after Chromobacterium violaceum infection. |
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