Shigella Flexneri Bacteraemia In a Patient with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Clinica Belgica
- Vol. 40 (6) , 388-390
- https://doi.org/10.1080/22953337.1985.11719111
Abstract
Shigellosis is usually an acute self-limited diarrhoeal disease rarely accompanied by extraintestinal manifestations. An episode of Shigella flexneri bacteraemia is reported in a 23-year-old black african women with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) who sustained recurrent bouts of diarrhoea. The patient responded well to a ten-day course of ampicillin to which the isolated organism was susceptible invitro.Keywords
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