2012-05-01
Secondary peritonitis caused by Streptomyces viridis
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology , Volume 50 - Issue 5 p. 1813- 1814
Streptomyces organisms are soil inhabitants rarely causing nonmycetomic infections. We describe a case of secondary peritonitis caused by Streptomyces viridis in a chronic alcoholic patient who presented with fever, abdominal distension, and pain in the abdomen. The most likely source of infection was by inoculation through multiple paracenteses, done for treatment of ascites, before the patient came to our health care center. This is the second case report of Streptomyces peritonitis and the first case caused by Streptomyces viridis, which is usually found in the soil in our geographic region. Copyright
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doi.org/10.1128/JCM.06045-11, hdl.handle.net/1765/63545 | |
Journal of Clinical Microbiology | |
Organisation | Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases |
Datta, P., Arora, S., Jain, A., Chander, J., & van de Sande, W. (2012). Secondary peritonitis caused by Streptomyces viridis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 50(5), 1813–1814. doi:10.1128/JCM.06045-11 |