Plesiomonas shigelloides : an extremely rare cause of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
| Journal | Volume 79 - 2016 |
| Issue | Fasc.1 - Case reports |
| Author(s) | Samarth Patel, Divyangkumar Gandhi, Vishisht Mehta, Karishma Bhatia, Oleg Epelbaum |
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| (1) Department of Internal Medicine, (4) Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, NY, USA ; (2) Division of Gastroenterology, Howard University Hospital, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA ; (3) Department of Medicine, Creighton University Medical Center, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA. |
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Plesiomonas shigelloides, a rare cause of gastroenteritis in humans, is a gram negative rod belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family. In addition, it has also been implicated in extra-intestinal infection, but prevalence data on such infections have been limited to case reports. To date there has been only one published case of P. shigel- loides causing spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). We describe another patient with P. shigelloides SBP and compare our findings with those from the original case. (Acta gastroenterol. belg., 2016, 79, 52-53). |
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