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Volume 26, Issue 2

Case Report

A Case of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infection Due to Ralstonia pickettii

Nilgün Altın
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  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İnfeksiyon Kontrol Komitesi, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Salih Cesur
Affiliations
  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İnfeksiyon Kontrol Komitesi, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Göknur Yapar Toros
Affiliations
  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İnfeksiyon Kontrol Komitesi, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Mehmet Kalan
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  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Beyin ve Sinir Cerrahisi Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Fatih Ayvalık
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  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Beyin ve Sinir Cerrahisi Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Kamer Koldaş
Affiliations
  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Gülkan Solgun
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  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji Laboratuvarı, Ankara, Türkiye
,
Fikret Ergüngör
Affiliations
  • Etlik İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Beyin ve Sinir Cerrahisi Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
,
İrfan Şencan
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  • Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye
  • infection
  • Ralstonia pickettii
  • Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Abstract

Ralstonia pickettii are considered contaminant bacteria and infections due to this bacteria are quite rare. Meningitis, pneumonia, bacteremia, septic arthritis, discitis and osteomyelitis cases due to these bacteria have been reported, but ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection due to R. pickettii in adult patients has not been reported so far. In this article, a case of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection due to R. pickettii in a patient who completely recovered with appropriate antibiotic treatment was presented. 

  • 72-74
  • 10.5152/kd.2013.22
  • July 23, 2019
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