Fatal Campylobacter jejuni bacteraemia in patients with AIDS. |
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| Authors: | R Manfredi A Nanetti M Ferri F Chiodo |
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| Affiliation: | Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica Specialistica e Sperimentale, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy. |
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| Abstract: | Two fatal cases of Campylobacter jejuni septicaemia in patients with AIDS were characterised by severe HIV-related immunodeficiency, negative stool cultures and presentation during hospitalisation, developing a clinical picture of fulminant septic shock despite therapy with appropriate antibiotics. Campylobacter spp. are important opportunist pathogens in HIV disease and may cause a septicaemic illness in the absence of enteric disease. |
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