Soft Tissue Infection and Bacteremia Caused by Shewanella putrefaciens
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Claudio Vedovelli; Leonardo Pagani; Peter Mian; Adolf Lang; Giovanni Rimenti; Raffaele Pristerà; Oswald Moling
- Source
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 41:2240-2241
- Subject
- Male
Microbiology (medical)
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Bacteremia
Shewanella algae
Shewanella putrefaciens
Case Reports
Microbiology
Vibrionaceae
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
medicine
Humans
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
biology
Gram-negative bacterial infections
Soft Tissue Infections
Soft tissue
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Soft tissue infection
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Bacteria
- Language
- ISSN
- 1098-660X
0095-1137
Shewanella putrefaciens is as yet rarely responsible for clinical syndromes in humans. However, a case involving multiple organs in an elderly male under treatment with appropriate steroids confirms that attention should be devoted to unusual pathogens.