An unusual case of noma caused by Klebsiella pnuemoniae and its management
| Autor: | Ram Krishan Gautam, Kabir Sardana, Aastha Gupta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine Polymicrobial infection Klebsiella medicine.medical_specialty Noma Child Nutrition Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pharmacotherapy Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Infusions Intravenous Gangrene Unusual case biology business.industry Ceftriaxone Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Dermatology Anti-Bacterial Agents Klebsiella Infections Klebsiella pneumoniae 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Fusobacterium Child Preschool business Empiric therapy |
| Zdroj: | Tropical Doctor. 48:230-232 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1133 0049-4755 |
| Popis: | Noma or cancrum oris is an orofacial gangrene causing progressive mutilating destruction of the infected tissues. It mainly affects malnourished children with poor oral hygiene and concurrent debilitating systemic illnesses. It is a polymicrobial infection and borrelia vincentii and fusobacterium are the most important pathogens known. We present a case of a boy aged 2.5 years with noma where klebsiella was grown and was the initial cause of failure of empiric therapy. |
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