Anthrax in pregnancy: Case Report

ISSN: 1301-0883
Başlangıç: 1996
Yayıncı: ERBİL KARAMAN

A 28 year-old 33 week-pregnant patient who came into contact with the flesh of a slaughtered sick -animal applied to our hospital with a wound on the left hand and swelling on the entire elbow and armpit. The middle falls shaped, black colored, hyperemic lesions on the edges of the distal parts of 2 nd and 3rd fingers at the left hand and also lymphadenopathies spreading to whole arm and the armpit were observed. Anthrax is diagnosed according to the patient's epidemiological history, physical examination findings, Bacillus anthracis presence in direct preparation and its propagation in the culture. The patient was treated with penicillin for 10 days. This case was presented as the patient was pregnant and there was no complications in the mother and the baby.

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