Vibrio vulnificus specie isolation in series blood culture. A case report.

Autor: Elio Jesús Núñez Tamayo, Susana Chamero Melgarejo, Julián Viera Yanez, Belkys Rodríguez Llerena, Nancy Ramírez Martínez, Dania Peñaranda Pordomingo, Annia Alvarado Borges
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Medisur, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 63-65 (2004)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1727-897X
Popis: This papers contains a report of a case with Vibrio vulnificuls, gram negative micro organism that ferments carbohydrates and that is positive to the oxidase test and halophile in a patient with history of heart and liver disease who was assisted at the Intensive Care Emergency Unit ( ICU )of the ¨Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima¨ University Hospital in July 2003. Thy symptoms were: oedema in lower limbs, orthopnea, chest pain that was interpreted as a case of pneumonia and a Myocardial Infarction. This patient progresses rapidly to cardiac arrest, is reanimated , and is admitted at the ICU with control pressuremetric ventilation. Vibrio Vulnificuls was isolated with a conventional diagnosis from hemo cultures. Anti microbial Susceptibility tests , the micro organism was susceptible to tetracycline, sulphaprim, aztreonam, ampicillin and was resistant to chloranphenicol.
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