Clinical Features of Community-AcquiredHelicobacter cinaediBacteremia
| Autor: | Yoshihito Otsuka, Naoto Hosokawa, Yoshifumi Uwamino, Ryota Hase, Kiyoharu Muranaka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male 0301 basic medicine medicine.medical_specialty 030106 microbiology Bacteremia Helicobacter Infections Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Helicobacter cinaedi Helicobacter Internal medicine medicine Humans Intensive care medicine Pathological Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over biology business.industry Gastroenterology Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged Tertiary care hospital biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Community-Acquired Infections Infectious Diseases Healthy individuals Cellulitis Female business |
| Zdroj: | Helicobacter. 21:24-28 |
| ISSN: | 1083-4389 |
| Popis: | Background There are growing numbers of reports concerning the clinical and pathological features of Helicobacter cinaedi (H. cinaedi) bacteremia; however, few reports have discussed the features of this condition in healthy individuals. Patients and Methods A retrospective observational study was conducted at a Japanese tertiary care hospital to assess the clinical features of community-acquired H. cinaedi. All patients in whom H. cinaedi was isolated between January 2009 and March 2014 were identified from the hospital database. Results Of the 28 patients included in the study, 12 had community-acquired H. cinaedi bacteremia. The most common clinical feature was cellulitis (n = 17). However, nearly half of the patients with healthcare-associated or nosocomial-associated bacteremia displayed no symptoms with the exception of fever. Most patients were successfully treated with a 14-day regime of third-generation cephalosporins or tetracycline. Conclusions Our results show that H. cinaedi infections are quite common in immunocompetent community-dwelling individuals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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