Isolation ofEwingella americana from a patient with conjunctivitis

Heizmann, W.; Michel, Randall G.

doi:10.1007/bf02005452

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“…Clinical infections due to E. americana have been reported to cause peritonitis [10], conjunctivitis [3, 4], bacteremia [8], and pneumonia [2, 15]. Colonization in wound [9] and sputum [2] were also reported in patients without causing clinical infection.…”

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“…Although, a few cases of E. americana have been reported earlier causing conjunctivitis [3, 4] and Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome [16] in previously healthy individuals, this is the first case of osteomyelitis involving the joint due to intravenous drug abuse. Based on this observation, clinicians may want to consider Ewingella Americana as an emerging true pathogen.…”

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“…It rarely causes human infections and has been identified from various clinical samples including sputum [2], conjunctiva [3, 4], blood [5–8], wound [9], and peritoneal dialysate [10]. Interestingly, it has also been isolated from the intestinal contents of snails and slugs [11], fresh nutria carcasses [12], vacuum packaged meat [13], and mushrooms [14] as well.…”

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Ewingella Americana: An Emerging True Pathogen

Hassan

Amer

Mittal

et al. 2012

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases

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Ewingella Americana: An Emerging True Pathogen

Hassan

Amer

Mittal

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Case Reports in Infectious Diseases

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“…The pathogenic significance and niches of the reservoir have not been clarified. This organism rarely causes human infections and has been identified from various clinical specimens including wound, sputum, urine, stool, blood (1, 2), conjunctiva (3) and peritoneal dialysate (4). We present a chronic renal failure patient with fever and haziness in right lung field on chest radiography.…”

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A Case of Pneumonia Caused byEwingella americanain a Patient with Chronic Renal Failure

Ryoo

Jeon

et al. 2005

J Korean Med Sci

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Though the pathogenic significance and the reservoir of Ewingella americana have not been clarified, this organism has caused several pathogenic infections, especially in immunocompromised patients. We report a pneumonia in a patient with chronic renal failure, who had chronic rejection of transplanted kidney. E. americana was identified to be the pathogen of pneumonia with clinical symptoms and signs and radiological examination. As soon as he was treated with ceftriaxone and isepamicin, clinical improvement was followed with no further growth of E. americana or other pathogenic isolates from sputum culture. This suggests to be the case of pneumonia caused by E. americana for the first time in the Korean literature.

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“…It rarely causes human infections, although several investigations reported its existence in sputum [2], conjunctiva [3,4], blood [5-8], wounds [9], peritoneal dialysis [10] and bone marrow [11]. …”

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Peritonitis caused by Ewingella americana in a patient with peritoneal dialysis: a case report

Shen

Tao

et al. 2014

J Med Case Reports

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IntroductionPeritonitis can happen in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. It is commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus, which is the basis of the empiric choice of antibiotics. Here we report a case that was caused by Ewingella americana and thus required different considerations of treatment.Case presentationA 76-year-old Chinese woman underwent continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis after the diagnosis of chronic renal failure. She presented with generalized abdominal pain after the start of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for 10 consecutive months. The pathogen was identified as Ewingella americana by microbiological examination and its susceptibility to antibiotics was partly different from the common pathogens causing peritonitis. The change of antibiotic treatment from vancomycin to amikacin accelerated her recovery.ConclusionIt should be noted that peritonitis can be caused by E. americana. Our report may add to the known causes of peritonitis in a hospital environment. With respect to the empiric choice of antibiotics to treat peritonitis under the condition of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, it is worth noting that E. americana has a different susceptibility to the spectrum of antibiotics and its corresponding therapy should be taken into consideration.

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Isolation ofEwingella americana from a patient with conjunctivitis

Cited by 20 publications

References 8 publications

Ewingella Americana: An Emerging True Pathogen

Ewingella Americana: An Emerging True Pathogen

A Case of Pneumonia Caused byEwingella americanain a Patient with Chronic Renal Failure

Peritonitis caused by Ewingella americana in a patient with peritoneal dialysis: a case report

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