GROUP-A STREPTOCOCCUS SEPTICEMIA AND AN INFECTED, RUPTURED ABDOMINAL AORTIC-ANEURYSM ASSOCIATED WITH PHARYNGITIS

GROUP-A STREPTOCOCCUS SEPTICEMIA AND AN INFECTED, RUPTURED ABDOMINAL AORTIC-ANEURYSM ASSOCIATED WITH PHARYNGITIS

Valero G; Cutrona A F; Watanakunakorn C; Talkington D F

Clinical Infectious Diseases

1992

1992-09

A 65-year-old man had a 3-day history of sore throat, fever, rigors, back pain, abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The patient's daughter had group A streptococcus pharyngitis. The patient was found to have a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. He underwent resection of the aneurysm and right axillary femoro-femoral bypass graft. The patient died 40 hours after admission. Gram stain of the aneurysm showed numerous gram-positive cocci. Group A streptococcus grew from cultures of blood, throat, and aneurysm. The group A streptococcus was M type 3, T type 3 and produced streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin A. This case is a very rare fatal complication of group A streptococcus pharyngitis.

experience; Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Microbiology

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