S Ichiyama, S Hirai, T Minami, Y Nishiyama, S Shimizu, K Shimokata, M Ohta
Campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus rarely causes celluitis associated with bacteremia in debilitated hosts. We have identified this infection in two patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and in one with liver cirrhosis. All three patients had eaten raw beef, liver, or improperly cooked pork before the manifestations of the illness. C. fetus subspecies fetus was recovered from blood and feces from the three patients. This organism was also isolated from a subcutaneous aspirate of the cellulitis lesion in one patient...
August 1998: Clinical Infectious Diseases