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KMID : 0384119970170020308
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Korean Journal of Clinical Pathology
1997 Volume.17 No. 2 p.308 ~ p.312
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Two Cases of Diarrheal Disease Caused by Plesiomonas shigelloides
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Abstract
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Plesiomonas shigelloides is known to cause diarrhea in human. It is a facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rod belonging to the family Vibrionaceae. We isolated P. shigelloides from two patients with diarrhea, a 62-year-old woman with steroid
therapy
and a 4-year-old boy with no predisposing factor. The organisms were isolated on enteric agars as a nonlactose fermenter and were identified by oxidase, indole, and other biochemical characteristics. The isolates were susceptible to commonly used
antimicrobial agents with the exception of ampicillin. P. shigelloides infection infection is rarely reported in our country, but appears to be a significant cause of diarrhea that responds to antimicrobial therapy. Therefore we suggest the need
for
correctly identifying P. shigelloides. (Korean J Clin Pathol 1997 ; 17(2) : 308~12)
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