Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura

We report the case of a 70 year-old-man with history of non-insulin dependant diabetes, arterial hypertension and chronic renal failure in hemodyalisis who was admitted to hospital with a history of fever for three weeks. Aseptic arthritis of the left hip was diagnosed an a surgical debridement was...

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Autores principales:	Pérez C,Carlos, Rojas G,Alvaro, Baudrand B,René, García C,Patricia
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Chilena de Infectología 2002
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-101820020002000052002-09-05Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literaturaPérez C,CarlosRojas G,AlvaroBaudrand B,RenéGarcía C,PatriciaWe report the case of a 70 year-old-man with history of non-insulin dependant diabetes, arterial hypertension and chronic renal failure in hemodyalisis who was admitted to hospital with a history of fever for three weeks. Aseptic arthritis of the left hip was diagnosed an a surgical debridement was performed. Cultures showed growth of a fastidious gram-negative cocobacilus. The patient was re-admitted because of impaired consciousness, an acute myocardial infarction and fever. Brain CT scan and head MRI were normal as well as cerebrospinal fluid analysis. Final identification of the gram negative rod corresponded to Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus (formerly Moraxella phenylpyruvicus). Treatment with ceftriaxone was begun. After two weeks the patient died of cardiac arrest. Moraxellaceae family is part of the normal flora of the upper respiratory tract and genitourinary tract. Occasionally Moraxellaceae family is seen as a pathogen. There are only two previous reports of infections due to Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus, a diabetic foot and an infectious endocarditis, this is the first case of septic arthritis caused by this microorganism.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de InfectologíaRevista chilena de infectología v.19 n.2 20022002-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-10182002000200005es10.4067/S0716-10182002000200005
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description	We report the case of a 70 year-old-man with history of non-insulin dependant diabetes, arterial hypertension and chronic renal failure in hemodyalisis who was admitted to hospital with a history of fever for three weeks. Aseptic arthritis of the left hip was diagnosed an a surgical debridement was performed. Cultures showed growth of a fastidious gram-negative cocobacilus. The patient was re-admitted because of impaired consciousness, an acute myocardial infarction and fever. Brain CT scan and head MRI were normal as well as cerebrospinal fluid analysis. Final identification of the gram negative rod corresponded to Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus (formerly Moraxella phenylpyruvicus). Treatment with ceftriaxone was begun. After two weeks the patient died of cardiac arrest. Moraxellaceae family is part of the normal flora of the upper respiratory tract and genitourinary tract. Occasionally Moraxellaceae family is seen as a pathogen. There are only two previous reports of infections due to Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus, a diabetic foot and an infectious endocarditis, this is the first case of septic arthritis caused by this microorganism.
author	Pérez C,Carlos Rojas G,Alvaro Baudrand B,René García C,Patricia
spellingShingle	Pérez C,Carlos Rojas G,Alvaro Baudrand B,René García C,Patricia Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
author_facet	Pérez C,Carlos Rojas G,Alvaro Baudrand B,René García C,Patricia
author_sort	Pérez C,Carlos
title	Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
title_short	Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
title_full	Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
title_fullStr	Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
title_full_unstemmed	Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
title_sort	artritis séptica por psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
publisher	Sociedad Chilena de Infectología
publishDate	2002
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-10182002000200005
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Artritis séptica por Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus: Primer caso clínico y revisión de la literatura

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