Bacteremia due to Shigella flexneri in an adult
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Shigella species were discovered over 100 years ago by a Japanese microbiologist named Shiga, for whom the genus is named. Shigella organisms are a group of gram-negative, facultative intracellular pathogens. They were recognized as the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in the 1890s. These organisms are members of the family Enterobacteriaceae and tribe Escherichieae; they are grouped into 4 species: Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Shigella boydii, and Shigella sonnei, also known as groups A, B, C, and D, respectively(JB Yen et al., 2003)
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[Bacteraemia due to Shigella flexneri serotype 6 in two patients with AIDS].
Infections due to Shigella usually remain localized to the digestive tract and are self-limited. Bacteremia is a potentially lethal complication that can occur in immunocompromised patients. We describe two episodes of bacteremia caused by Shigella in two adults with AIDS. In both patients, S. flexneri was recovered from stool and blood samples. The isolates belonged to serotype 6, were resista...
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