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Article: Empyema thoracis from Salmonella choleraesuis.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
- Author:
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To the Editor: The clinical presentations of nontyphoidal Salmonella infection are protean, including gastroenteritis (most common), bacteremia, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and endovascular infection. (1). Despite the growing number of patients with invasive infection due to nontyphoid Salmonella, reports of thoracic empyema due to these organisms remain rare (2-6).
We searched the computer database of our microbiology laboratory for patients with positive pleural effusion culture from June 1997 to February 2004. Patients were included if they met the following criteria: 1) thoracentesis recovered purulent pleural fluid; 2) microorganisms identified by ...