Carbuncle due to Salmonella Enteritidis: a novel presentation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Salmonella Enteritidis causes intestinal and extra-intestinal infections, but rarely cutaneous infections. It has never been reported to cause carbuncle (a collection of interconnected furuncles with multiple pustular openings). We report a case of carbuncle due to S. Enteritidis.

Case presentation

An adult Bangladeshi patient with type 2 diabetes presented with a carbuncle on the left-side of his neck. A pure culture of S. Enteritidis was grown from the pus of the carbuncle. The patient was successfully treated with ciprofloxacin to which the isolate was susceptible. Whole genome sequencing of the strain showed that it possessed three additional virulence genes-pef (for plasmid-encoded fimbriae), spv (for salmonella plasmid viru

SUBMITTER: Alfouzan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5594545 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature