Early Onset Prosthetic Joint Infection and Bacteremia due to Campylobacter fetus Subspecies fetus
| Autor: | Poornima Ramanan, Joni J. Franson, Diego Zea, Igor Dumic, Mohan Sengodan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment 030106 microbiology Case Report Meropenem Prosthesis lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine lcsh:RC109-216 Early onset 030203 arthritis & rheumatology Doxycycline Fetus Debridement biology business.industry General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Surgery Bacteremia Campylobacter fetus business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Infectious Diseases Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Vol 2017 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2090-6633 2090-6625 |
| Popis: | Campylobacter fetusis a zoonotic pathogen that occasionally causes serious, relapsing, invasive disease, especially in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of relapsingC. fetusdiarrheal illness in a 75-year-old woman which resulted in secondary bacteremia and seeding of the left knee prosthetic joint. Patient responded favorably to debridement and retention of prosthesis in addition to six weeks of meropenem followed by chronic oral doxycycline suppressive therapy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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