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Neisseria cinerea in a Post-splenectomy Patient: A Rare Potentially Fatal Bacteremia

Neisseria cinerea is a commensal which usually resides in the human respiratory tract. Very rarely, the organism finds its way into the bloodstream causing severe bacteremia. So far, very few cases of Neisseria bacteremia have been reported. We report a case of a 78-year-old male, post-splenectomy, ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cureus
Hauptverfasser: Patti, Ravikaran, Gupta, Sushilkumar S, Bhardwaj, Sharonlin, Jha, Prameeta, Ghatak, Arindam, Kupfer, Yizhak, Seneviratne, Chanaka
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Cureus 2018
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30250769
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3007
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