Cutaneous abscesses caused by Salmonella enteritidis: an unusual presentation of salmonellosis

Post-injection intramuscular abscess with bacteremia caused by Salmonella enterica in an HIV-infected patient

“…The same year in UK, a 86 years old man also presented a subcutaneous abscess with S. Typhimurium overlying a previous pleural aspiration 6 months earlier, with no detection of the source of the infection (12). In UK in 1993, Nice et al described the case of a female patient with multiple little abscesses of the leg and thigh consecutive to a fall with bruising that grew positive to S. Enteritidis and Staphylococcus aureus (13). The origin of her skin's infection was not clear because she described no digestive sign, declared no injection and denied applying egg products on her lesions.…”

Cutaneous infection caused by Salmonella typhi

“…However, in almost all cases mentioned above, abscess formation developed during the course of typhoid fever and only secondarily involved the skin; thus, salmonella abscess formation occurring initially within the skin and remaining confined to it is regarded as a very rare event; it is noteworthy that most of the reported cases of subcutaneous abscess formation were due to Salmonella species other than S. typhi 8 . Furthermore, in such subcutaneous abscesses ulceration as a rule does not occur 9 …”

“…Localized infection is a not infrequent complication of salmonella septicaemia, most notably occurring where there is an underlying predisposition, such as in sickle‐cell anaemia, in bartonellosis and in severely ill or immunocompromised patients 1–4 . Localized infection commonly develops in bone and joints, although intraperitoneal, 5 splenic, 6 breast 7 and subcutaneous 1–4,8 abscesses have been described; skin ulceration due to cutaneous localization of Salmonellae is regarded as an exceedingly rare event 9 . We report a unique case of cutaneous ulceration occurring as a clinical manifestation of infection with Salmonella typhi in the complete absence of systemic symptoms.…”

In vitro activity of moxifloxacin against Stenottophomonas maltophilia blood isolates from patients with hematologic malignancies

“…Zoonotic Salmonella serotypes cause septicemia in less than 2% of diagnosed Salmonella cases [7]. Such invasive infections have often been reported in patients with an underlying impairment of host defenses, including extremes of age, debilitating diseases, immunosuppressive therapy, achlorhydria, antacids and gastric resection [1,8,9].…”