Plesiomonas shigelloides Septic Shock Following Ingestion of Dojo Nabe (Loach Hotpot).

Takayuki ShinoharaKoh OkamotoSaho KoyanoAmato OtaniMarie YamashitaYuji WakimotoDaisuke JubishiHideki HashimotoMahoko IkedaSohei HaradaShu OkugawaKyoji Moriya

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2021)

Plesiomonas shigelloides is a gram-negative bacillus that commonly causes self-limited diarrhea in humans. We present the case of P shigelloides bacteremia in a 49-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis who developed septic shock a day after eating Dojo nabe (loach hotpot), a Japanese traditional dish.

Keyphrases

septic shock
gram negative
multidrug resistant
physical activity
weight loss
liver injury
irritable bowel syndrome
clostridium difficile