Vibrio vulnificus specie isolation in series blood culture. A case report.

• Main Authors: Elio Jesús Núñez Tamayo (Author), Susana Chamero Melgarejo (Author), Julián Viera Yanez (Author), Belkys Rodríguez Llerena (Author), Nancy Ramírez Martínez (Author), Dania Peñaranda Pordomingo (Author), Annia Alvarado Borges (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2004-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary

This papers contains a report of a case with Vibrio vulnificuls, gram negative micro organism that ferments carbohydrates and that is positive to the oxidase test and halophile in a patient with history of heart and liver disease who was assisted at the Intensive Care Emergency Unit ( ICU )of the ¨Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima¨ University Hospital in July 2003. Thy symptoms were: oedema in lower limbs, orthopnea, chest pain that was interpreted as a case of pneumonia and a Myocardial Infarction. This patient progresses rapidly to cardiac arrest, is reanimated , and is admitted at the ICU with control pressuremetric ventilation. Vibrio Vulnificuls was isolated with a conventional diagnosis from hemo cultures. Anti microbial Susceptibility tests , the micro organism was susceptible to tetracycline, sulphaprim, aztreonam, ampicillin and was resistant to chloranphenicol.<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span>

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