%0 Journal Article
%T Sepsis por Chromobacterium violaceum pigmentado y no pigmentado
%A Guevara
%A Armando
%A Salom¨®n
%A Marlly
%A Oliveros
%A Mar¨ªa
%A Guevara
%A Esmirna
%A Guevara
%A Milarys
%A Medina
%A Laida
%J Revista chilena de infectolog¨ªa
%D 2007
%I Sociedad Chilena de Infectolog¨ªa
%R 10.4067/S0716-10182007000500010
%X chromobacterium violaceum sepsis is rare but associated with a high mortality rate. we report a fatal case of c. violaceum sepsis in a 6 years old venezuelan indian boy. clinical manifestations were fever and swelling in the right inguinal region. the initial diagnosis was an appendicular plastron. appendicectomy was performed and during surgery a right psoas abscess was identified that resulted culture positive for pigmented c. violaceum. blood cultures were positive for a pigmented and non pigmented c. violaceum strain. imipenem and amikacin were administered despite of which the child died 9 days after hospital admission
%K psoas abscess
%K sepsis.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0716-10182007000500010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en