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Volume 5, Issue 7 (Suppl)
J Infect Dis Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2332-0877
Infection Prevention 2017
December 14-15, 2017
December 14-15, 2017 | Rome, Italy
13
th
World Congress on
INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Non-O:1
Vibrio cholerae
bacteremia in a 60-year-old female: A case report
Therese Angeli A
and
Marion Priscilla A Kwek
Makati Medical Center, Philippines
T
his is a case of a 60-year old female who presented with persistent, non-bloody diarrhea for 3 weeks which started after
intake of Amoxicillin-Clavulanic acid for an upper respiratory tract infection. She had undocumented fever a day prior to
admission, which prompted her to seek consult at the Emergency Department and she was eventually admitted. She had stable
vital signs at the ED, and only complained of vague abdominal discomfort and generalized weakness. She was initially managed
as a case of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and was given Metronidazole PO. The blood cultures taken from two peripheral sites
yielded growth of
Vibrio cholerae
. Bacteremia due to
Vibrio cholerae
is rarely reported in literature, and most cases that were
reported were in the setting of an immune deficiency state. This patient was otherwise healthy and immunocompetent. She was
given Ceftriaxone inpatient, and was sent home on Doxycycline after marked clinical improvement.
riasy_04@yahoo.comJ Infect Dis Ther 2017, 5:7(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-036