RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Shigella flexneri bacteremia in a child
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 403
OP 405
VO 24
IS 4
A1 Bello, Cornelius S.
A1 Al-Barki, Ahmed A.
A1 El-Awad, Mohamed E.
A1 Patel, Ramniklal V.
YR 2003
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/24/4/403.abstract
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.