A Case of Wound Infection with Providencia rettgeri and Coincident Gout in a Patient from Guam.
Hawaii J Med Public Health
; 74(11): 375-7, 2015 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
Providencia rettgeri (P. rettgeri) is a ubiquitous organism that is infrequently associated with human disease. Here we report the isolation of this organism from a polymicrobial wound infection resulting from ruptured tophi on a 54-year-old male patient from Guam. We describe the identification and confirmation of this organism, and propose metabolic synergy as a possible mechanism of pathogenesis. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of a wound infection colonized by P. rettgeri from Guam, and the first report to speculate upon the role of bacterial synergy in P. rettgeri pathogenesis.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecção dos Ferimentos
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Providencia
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Infecções por Enterobacteriaceae
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Gota
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Hawaii J Med Public Health
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article