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Yokenella regensburgei infection in India mimicking enteric fever

Sarika Jain, Rajni Gaind, Kunj Bihari Gupta, Reetika Dawar, Deepak Kumar, Premila Paul, Raman Sardana

Journal of Medical Microbiology · 2013 · 25 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Yokenella regensburgei is an opportunistic human pathogen of the Enterobacteriaceae family rarely reported to cause human infections. Here, we present a case report of Y. regensburgei bacteraemia from India clinically resembling enteric fever in an apparently immunocompetent paediatric patient.

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