PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bello, Cornelius S.
AU  - Al-Barki, Ahmed A.
AU  - El-Awad, Mohamed E.
AU  - Patel, Ramniklal V.
TI  - Shigella flexneri bacteremia in a child
DP  - 2003 Apr 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 403--405
VI  - 24
IP  - 4
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/24/4/403.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/24/4/403.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2003 Apr 01; 24
AB  - We report an unusual and lethal case of Shigella flexneri septicemia in an 8-year-old Saudi handicapped child from a social home presenting with severe toxic megacolon and acute abdomen secondary to fulminant necrotizing enterocolitis.