1. Edwardsiella tarda bacteremia with metastatic gastric cancer
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Kazuhiro Nishida, Takaharu Kato, Ikki Yuzaki, and Toshiyuki Suganuma
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Edwardsiella tarda ,Bacteremia ,Gastric cancer ,Liver metastasis ,Pancreatoduodenectomy ,Retrograde cholangitis ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Edwardsiella tarda (E. tarda) is a rare human pathogen; however, the overall mortality of bacteremia is reported to be up to 50%. Here, we describe a case of cholangitis with E. tarda bacteremia who had a pancreatoduodenectomy for a locally advanced gastric cancer. He was successfully treated using a cefmetazole, a second generation cephalosporin for 14 days. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report about E. tarda bacteremia after biliary reconstruction.
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- 2016
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