Vibrio harveyi sepsis in a child with cancer.
Wilkins S, Millar M, Hemsworth S, Johnson G, Warwick S, Pizer B
Department of Paediatric Oncology, Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK. drsimyuk@yahoo.co.uk
A paediatric oncology patient presented with central line sepsis caused by Vibrio harveyi, a gram negative bioluminescent marine bacterium known to be pathogenic to fish and marine invertebrates, after swimming in the sea.
Published 25 February 2008 in Pediatr Blood Cancer, 50(4): 891-2.
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