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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5892846 |