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SUBMITTER: Linde HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC522296 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20041001 10
We report the first case of a postoperative wound infection caused by Vibrio metschnikovii on the lower right leg of a patient after saphenectomy. Compared to the healing of an uninfected site, that of the right leg was delayed, and a cure was achieved by intensified wound care. Several swabs taken from the infected site grew a gram-negative rod in pure culture that was identified as V. metschnikovii by the VITEK 2 system. The source of the infection was not detected; however, the absence of put ...[more]