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Infection and Chemotherapy
;
: 213-216, 2011.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-137906
ABSTRACT
Aeromonas hydrophila is a facultative anaerobic Gram negative bacillus. It usually thrives in fresh and brackish water and primarily causes gastroenteritis in humans. Rarely aeromonads have been associated with extra-intestinal infections, such as skin and soft infection, meningitis, epidural abscess, endocarditis and pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts. Here we report Aeromonas hydrophila soft tissue infection occurring in a 53-year-old Korean woman without underlying disease who was successfully treated with proper antibiotics.