AORTIC GRAFT INFECTION DUE TO PASTEURELLA-HAEMOLYTICA AND GROUP-C BETA-HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS

Authors
RIVERA M HUNTER GC BROOKER J OBERG CW SMYTHE SH BERNHARD VM
Citation
M. Rivera et al., AORTIC GRAFT INFECTION DUE TO PASTEURELLA-HAEMOLYTICA AND GROUP-C BETA-HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS, Clinical infectious diseases, 19(5), 1994, pp. 941-943
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,Immunology,"Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Clinical infectious diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
10584838
Volume
19
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
941 - 943
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-4838(1994)19:5<941:AGIDTP>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Although infection is a rare complication of aortic bypass grafting, w e treated a 50-year-old patient who developed aortic graft infection d ue to Pateurella haemolytica and group C beta-hemolytic streptococcus. The source of the infection could not be verified; however, after rem oval of the infected graft and administration of a 6-week course of in travenous ampicillin, he recovered fully. We discuss the etiology and pathogenesis of this rare infection.