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Case Reports
. 2006 Jun;44(6):2298-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.02520-05.

Acute cholecystitis accompanied by acute pancreatitis potentially caused by Dolosigranulum pigrum

Jung-Chung Lin  1 , Shu-Jin Hou, Li-Ung Huang, Jun-Ren Sun, Wei-Kuo Chang, Jang-Jih Lu
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Case Reports

Acute cholecystitis accompanied by acute pancreatitis potentially caused by Dolosigranulum pigrum

Jung-Chung Lin et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Jun.

Abstract

We report a case of acute cholecystitis accompanied by acute pancreatitis and caused by Dolosigranulum pigrum in a 76-year-old male with gallstones. D. pigrum was isolated from a blood culture and confirmed by biochemistry tests and 16S rRNA sequencing. The isolate was susceptible to the beta-lactams ampicillin, penicillin, cephalothin, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, chloramphenicol, and vancomycin but was intermediate to erythromycin and clindamycin. The patient recovered without sequelae after treatment with appropriate antibiotics for two weeks.

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FIG. 1.
Abdominal computed tomography. The image shows a stone within the gallbladder, with minimal fluid accumulation over the fossa and swelling of pancreatic tissue.
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