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Query: UMLS:C0014118 (
endocarditis
)
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Bacteremia due to Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is rare; the most common presentation reported in the literature is
endocarditis
. We report a 32-year-old man with
oropharyngeal cancer
who developed aspiration pneumonia and E. rhusiopathiae bacteremia, and presented with fever, chills, dyspnea, and productive cough with purulent sputum. Despite treatment with amoxicillin/clavulanate and nutritional support for 9 days, he died of respiratory failure. He had no clinical evidence of
endocarditis
. He had no history of animal or occupational exposure, and might have been colonized with E. rhusiopathiae in the oral cavity, followed by aspiration pneumonia and bacteremia. A fatal outcome in a patient with bacteremia due to E. rhusiopathiae without
endocarditis
is rare.
...
PMID:Fatal outcome of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae bacteremia in a patient with oropharyngeal cancer. 1087 Mar 36
