Shigella flexneri bacteremia: A case report
Yonsei Medical Journal
; : 21-25, 1981.
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ABSTRACT
Shigella bacteremia occurs so rarely that blood culture is useless for the laboratory diagnosis of dysentery. S flexneri type 2 was isolated from a blood culture of a 3-year-old boy with clinical diagnosis of dysentery. A stool culture was negative for not only shigella but also other pathogenic bacteria. This was the only shigella-positive blood culture during the last 12 1/2 years although more than 1,200 cases of bacteriologically proven dysentery were encountered. One of the 4 bottles inoculated with 2 blood samples drawn on the 4th day of illness yielded numerous shigella and few Klebsiella pneumoniae colonies on subculture. On admission the patient was a moderately nourished boy with body temperature of 38 degrees C. The leukocyte count was 10,200/microliter with 29% neutrophils. No evidence of septicemia was noted. He was placed on antibiotics and fluid replacement. The patient was discharged in 6 days after full recovery.
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Main subject:
Shigella flexneri
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Sepsis
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Dysentery, Bacillary
Limits:
Child, preschool
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Yonsei Medical Journal
Year:
1981
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Article