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. 1989 Dec;27(12):2853–2855. doi: 10.1128/jcm.27.12.2853-2855.1989

Unusual non-serogroup O1 Vibrio cholerae bacteremia associated with liver disease.

R Dhar 1, M A Ghafoor 1, A Y Nasralah 1
PMCID: PMC267142  PMID: 2592546

Abstract

A 50-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man with underlying liver disease presented with fever and signs of liver failure. The blood cultures in both cases yielded non-serogroup O1 Vibrio cholerae strains which were biochemically identical except that one strain was nonmotile. Despite treatment with antibiotics, the older patient died; the other patient survived. Both strains were found to be susceptible to most antibiotics tested in vitro. No apparent source of infection could be identified in either case.

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