Multifocal Aeromonas Osteomyelitis in a Child with Leukemia

Aeromonas hydrophila is a Gram negative organism causing both intestinal and extraintestinal disease. The case of a 14-year-old girl with underlying immunodeficiency and leukemia who developed systemic A. hydrophila infection is described in this report. While in deep bone marrow aplasia she developed fever, severe pain in the lower extremities, and swelling of the left femur. Blood culture showed Escherichia coli and A. hydrophila whereas pus culture from the soft tissue swelling showed the presence of A. hydrophila. Imaging studies showed diffuse osteolytic lesions. Patient received 5 months of intravenous and oral antibiotics and she improved clinically whereas the radiology findings persisted.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Case Reports in Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2016-04-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2016/8159048PMID 27200197PMCID 4856942
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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