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SUBMITTER: Tan CK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2519482 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tan Che-Kim CK Lai Chih-Cheng CC Kuar Wei-Khie WK Hsueh Po-Ren PR
Journal of clinical microbiology 20080625 8
We report the first case of purulent pericarditis with greenish pericardial effusion caused by Shewanella algae in a patient with gastric and gallbladder cancer. This case expands the reported spectrum of infection caused by S. algae and raises the possibility that S. algae is a causative pathogen for purulent pericarditis. ...[more]