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Volume 8, Issue 9 (Suppl)
J AIDS Clin Res
ISSN: 2155-6113 JAR, an open access journal
STD Asia Pacific 2017
October 23-25, 2017
OCTOBER 23-25, 2017 OSAKA, JAPAN
7
TH
ASIA PACIFIC
STD and Infectious Diseases Congress
Streptococcus suis
: Bacteremia presenting with fever, rashes, arthritis and neurologic deficits
Ahmad M Domado and Jill Itable
Southern Philippines Medical Center, Philippines
S
treptococcus suis
is a Gram-positive coccus acquired through exposure to infected swine. The most common clinical
manifestation is meningitis often accompanied by bacteremia.
S. suis
is an emerging pathogenwith significant complications,
but remains to be underreported. Only 1,584 cases of
S. suis
infection have been reported worldwide with most of the cases
concentrated in Southeast Asia where swine quantity is high. Despite a booming hog industry in the Philippines and increasing
prevalence in its neighboring countries,
S. suis
infection remain unreported in our country due to either lack of available
diagnostics or misdiagnoses. We report a case of a 52-year-old male who came in due to fever, generalized violaceous purpuric
rash, headache and nuchal rigidity. Patient was diagnosed with meningitis clinically. Patient consumed a diseased swine 5 day
prior to admission. Blood culture was positive for
Streptococcus suis
II and clinical improvement was achieved with antibiotic
treatment. Our patient is the second Filipino and the first documented case to be diagnosed in the Philippines. Patient is also
the first documented case of a Filipino with
Streptococcus bacteremia
presenting with meningitis, hearing loss, skin lesions and
arthritis. In
S. suis
infection, antibiotic treatment should be started without delay because a high mortality rate of up to 68% is
observed in patients with septicemia and septic shock. With increased awareness and available diagnostics, a future outbreak,
can be prevented.
ahmaddomado@yahoo.comJ AIDS Clin Res 2017, 8:9 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113-C1-021