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Fatal non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae septicaemia in a patient with chronic liver disease

Sadia Khan, Anil Kumar, Divya Meparambu, Sabu Thomas, Deepa Harichandran, Shamsul Karim

¹Department of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Ponekara, Kochi-682041, Kerala, India

²Cholera and Environmental Biology Laboratory, Dept of Molecular Microbiology Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Correspondence
Sadia Khan drsadiakhan83{at}gmail.com

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2013; 62(Pt 6):917–921 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.049296-0

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Abstract

A 49-year-old male with underlying liver disease presented with fever and signs of sepsis. Non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae was isolated from his blood culture, which was positive for the hlyA and toxR genes. We report this fatal case of non-O1/non-O139 V. cholera sepsis and review the literature on non-O1/non-O139 V. cholerae sepsis in patients with chronic liver disease.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the partial 16S rRNA gene sequence of the non-O1/non-O139 V. cholerae strain is JX987303.
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Abbreviations:
IV: intravenously