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A case of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 septicemia is described in this paper. A 45-year-old male with a three year history of liver cirrhosis, was admitted to our division with hematemesis, abdominal pain, high fever and a loss of consciousness. Three days before onset of symptoms, he traveled to Ishigaki Island and ate a raw lobster. Two days after, his temperature rose to 39.7 degrees C and the blood pressure dropped to 36/- mmHg. By endoscopic examination, an ulcer was found in the stomach, and the bleeding was stopped by electrical coagulation. Blood culture showed growth of V. cholerae non-O1. The organism was found to be sensitive to OFLX, CZX, MINO, LMOX and CP. Although DIC, infections of fungus and MRSA occurred as complications, he recovered by adequate procedures. Subsequently, he left this division after eight weeks. There are various reports related to V. cholerae non-O1 septicemia in foreign countries, but few cases have been reported in Japan. And these cases had severe underlying diseases such as leukemia and liver cirrhosis.
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PMID:[A case of Vibrio cholerae non-O1 septicemia with liver cirrhosis]. 140 1

Food poisoning due to "Godofu (Sasayuki tofu)" as a main causative foodstuff which broke out on July 14, 1988. There were 670 out of 918 persons who ingested this food who became ill (incidence 73.0%). The main symptoms were diarrhea (93.4%), fever (77.5%), abdominal pain (64.5%), and vomiting (19.9%). A high degree of fever and watery diarrhea were characteristic of this poisoning. The average latent period was 35 hours with a range of one to 156. The O164:H- strains of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) were detected from 22 of the 32 fecal samples collected from the patients, five of ten samples collected from workers engaged in tofu making, and one sample of left-over Godofu. The virulence of EIEC strains isolated from the patients, workers, and left-over food was confirmed by invasion into HeLa and HEp-2 cells, Sereny test, and ELISA test to detect invasive plasmid-derived protein of the organism (conducted at Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory of Public Health). These EIEC strains were sensitive (less than or equal to 0.19 to 6.25 micrograms/ml) to GM, ABPC, CBPC, CER, CET, NA, PB, MINO, TC and CP as well as KM and OFLX which were used for treatment. However, their susceptibility to FOM varied to some extent (6.25 to 25.0 micrograms/ml) and one strain isolated from a tofu worker was resistant to MINO, TC, FOM and CP (25 to greater than or equal to 100 micrograms/ml). Since investigation revealed that Godofu was left at room temperature about 29 degrees C until ingested, we did a experiment to check the bacterial growth in Godofu under similar conditions at the time of outbreak.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:[Food poisoning caused by enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (O164:H-)--a case in which the causative agent was identified]. 143 58