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Chromobacterium violaceum peritonitis: case report and literature review |
Annales de Biologie Clinique. Volume 64, Number 4, 327-30, Juillet-Août 2006, Pratique quotidienne
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Author(s) : J Watine, A Courtade, E Pham, C Lievrouw, B Dubourdieu, B Guérin, J-L Gineston |
Summary : We report a case of Chromobacterium violaceum infection and we review the literature for all published cases. C. violaceum grew from a peritoneal fluid of a 47-year-old woman operated on for peritonitis following perforative gastroduodenal ulcer. She was just coming back from a 1-month-holyday in French Guyana, where she might have been in contact with this micro-organism. The patient fully recovered after surgical management associated with antibiotic therapy consisting of ofloxacin plus piperacillin-tazobactam. Among the more than a hundred of published cases of human infections with C. violaceum that we retrieved, there was not any other case of peritonitis. |
Keywords : Chromobacterium violaceum, peritonitis, perforation, gastroduodenal ulcer, French Guyana, systematic review |
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