Early Onset Prosthetic Joint Infection and Bacteremia due to Campylobacter fetus Subspecies fetus

Campylobacter fetus is a zoonotic pathogen that occasionally causes serious, relapsing, invasive disease, especially in immunocompromised hosts. We report a case of relapsing C. fetus diarrheal illness in a 75-year-old woman which resulted in secondary bacteremia and seeding of the left knee prosthe...

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Main Authors: Igor Dumic, Mohan Sengodan, Joni J. Franson, Diego Zea, Poornima Ramanan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5892846
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