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Septicemia Caused by Vibrio fetus
Publio Toala, MD;
Alice McDonald;
Edward H. Kass, MD, PhD
Arch Intern Med. 1970;126(2):306-308.
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Vibrio fetus infections in human beings are a relatively new concern. In 1957 and 1962 King reviewed the laboratory characteristics and summarized the clinical findings in 29 patients,1,2 in 1967 Kilo et al3 reported one infection and reviewed the literature in detail, and in 1966 Eden4 reviewed published reports dealing with human vibrosis as it relates to pregnancy and perinatal mortality. Since then, several other infections have been reported in different parts of the world.5-7 This communication describes our experience at the Boston City Hospital (BCH) during the past four years.
Patient Summaries
PATIENT 1.
—A 72-year-old man was hospitalized on Sept 3, 1964, with diarrhea, severe dehydration of four days' duration, and prolonged cachexia. For the previous two years he had been receiving cyclophosphamide and prednisolone for the treatment of lymphosarcoma. A brief review of past admissions showed diabetes mellitus since 1955, lymphosarcoma and chronic
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Author Affiliations
Boston
From the Channing Laboratory, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Harvard Medical Unit, and Department of Medical Microbiology, Bos-; ton City Hospital; and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Footnotes
Received for publication Dec 9, 1969; accepted March 3,1970.
Reprint requests to 774 Albany St, Boston 02118 (Dr. Kass).
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