Abstract
Empyema Thoracis from<i>Salmonella</i>Choleraesuis
Highlights
To the Editor: The clinical presentations of nontyphoidal Salmonella infection are protean, including gastroenteritis, bacteremia, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and endovascular infection. [1]
Patients were included if they met the following criteria: 1) thoracentesis recovered purulent pleural fluid; 2) microorganisms identified by microscopic examination; and 3) a Salmonella species isolated from a pleural effusion specimen
Susceptibilities of Salmonella isolates to ampicillin, cefotaxime, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole were determined by the disk diffusion method
Summary
To the Editor: The clinical presentations of nontyphoidal Salmonella infection are protean, including gastroenteritis (most common), bacteremia, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and endovascular infection. [1]. Despite the growing number of patients with invasive infection due to nontyphoid Salmonella, reports of thoracic empyema due to these organisms remain rare [2,3,4,5,6]. Susceptibilities of Salmonella isolates to ampicillin, cefotaxime, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole were determined by the disk diffusion method. 973 patients with a diagnosis of empyema thoracis were identified; 12 (1.23%) of these patients, including 9 men and 3 women, were infected with Salmonella species.
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