Plesiomonas shigelloides : an extremely rare cause of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis.

Plesiomonas shigelloides, a rare cause of gastroenteritis in humans, is a gram negative rod belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family. In addition, it has also been implicated in extra-intestinal infection, but prevalence data on such infections have been limited to case reports. To date there has been only one published case of P. shigelloides causing spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP). We describe another patient with P. shigelloides SBP and compare our findings with those from the original case.