Shigella flexneri Bacteremia in a Patient with Behcet’s Disease and Receiving Immunosuppressive Treatment: A Case Report

Abstract

Shigella bacteremia usually causes gastrointestinal infections and has a table of disease accompanied by abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea and fever. Bacteremia is not a common case but develops in the children under two years age and in malnourished children. Shigella bacteremia has a high rate of mortality and is a rare complication in adults which usually occurs in the presence of predisposing factors as diabetes and steroid use. In this study we presented a case, who had Behçet’s disease and received immunosuppressive treatment, developed S. flexneri bacteremia at the age of 56