ABSTRACT
Between 1979 and 1989 patients presented with soft tissue infections caused by salmonella typhi or paratyphi B, at the Infectious Diseases Hospital Dr. Lucio Cordova, Santiago, Chile. These complications appeared during or after the clinical course of an enteric fever, or without any antecedent illness. The patients were predominantly young and females. The lesions were mainly located in the lower extremities. 50 percent of the patients presented with a concommitant deep bone or joint infection. 11 patients were treated with cloramphenicol (average 22,8 days), 3 with TMP-SMX (average 23 days) and 4 whith a combination of drugs. 13 patients required surgical drainage. This unusual complication extended hospital stay convelescence, but all our patients had a complete recovery
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Middle Aged , Paratyphoid Fever/complications , Soft Tissue Infections/etiology , Typhoid Fever/complications , Clinical Evolution , Salmonella paratyphi A/isolation & purification , Salmonella paratyphi A/pathogenicity , Salmonella typhi/isolation & purification , Salmonella typhi/pathogenicity , Soft Tissue Infections/drug therapy , Soft Tissue Infections/parasitologyABSTRACT
Se revisan 10 casos de carbunco cutáneo internados en el Hospital de Enfermedades Infecciosas profesor Dr. Lucio Cordova entre los años 1975 a 1993. En todos los pacientes las manifestaciones clínicas fueron la base del diagnóstico lo que unido al antecedente epidemiológico, evolución del cuadro clínico y cultivos bacteriológicos, hicieron que el reconocimiento de esta enfermedad fuera relativamente fácil. Se describieron las características clínicas, de laboratorio y los buenos resultados del tratamiento con penicilina sin que se produjeran casos fatales