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SUBMITTER: Datta P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3347148 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Datta Priya P Arora Shilpa S Jain Ruby R Chander Jagdish J van de Sande Wendy W
Journal of clinical microbiology 20120215 5
Streptomyces organisms are soil inhabitants rarely causing nonmycetomic infections. We describe a case of secondary peritonitis caused by Streptomyces viridis in a chronic alcoholic patient who presented with fever, abdominal distension, and pain in the abdomen. The most likely source of infection was by inoculation through multiple paracenteses, done for treatment of ascites, before the patient came to our health care center. This is the second case report of Streptomyces peritonitis and the fi ...[more]