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Case Reports
. 2008 Aug;46(8):2817-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01018-08. Epub 2008 Jun 25.

Purulent pericarditis with greenish pericardial effusion caused by Shewanella algae

Che-Kim Tan  1 , Chih-Cheng Lai, Wei-Khie Kuar, Po-Ren Hsueh
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Purulent pericarditis with greenish pericardial effusion caused by Shewanella algae

Che-Kim Tan et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Aug.

Abstract

We report the first case of purulent pericarditis with greenish pericardial effusion caused by Shewanella algae in a patient with gastric and gallbladder cancer. This case expands the reported spectrum of infection caused by S. algae and raises the possibility that S. algae is a causative pathogen for purulent pericarditis.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
The initial chest X-ray (left) showed no obvious abnormality on admission. A chest X-ray taken on the eighth hospitalization day (right) showed marked cardiomegaly with a flask shape, indicating the presence of pericardial effusion.
FIG. 2.
FIG. 2.
Greenish and turbid pericardial fluid aspirated from the patient with Shewanella algae purulent pericarditis.
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