Sunday, October 24, 2010

Vietnam: Case of Streptococcus 47 yo; Hanoi

24/10/2010

Too frightened before the Committee notes, as rotten, feeling only slightly as meat hooks, broke out the family took him straight to the Central Hospital of Tropical knows his pigs infected with streptococcus.

Statistics of the hospital, from the beginning of this year there were about 40 cases of this disease and many patients with a history of exposure, such as slaughtering pigs, re-cooked food items like pork rolls from Welcome, duck ...

Dr Middle Level - Associate Dean intensive care (Hospital for Tropical Surgeons) - said, VVN patients (47 years old, born in Phu Xuyen, Ha Noi) was transferred to hospital on 18/10 in love high fever, shock and on the arms and legs appear much the necrotic spots.

"Looking at clinical symptoms, we diagnosed patients infected with Streptococcus pigs implanted specimens and the results showed that patients positive for streptococcus swine. While in the hospital right from day 2 after the fever but the patient's condition was very severe with signs of high fever, multiple organ failure ... "- BS Level said.

The patient who says, as a guard in the city, I mainly eat dust N. He has a habit of chips for three days drink duck pig hearts in the morning. Before the commencement of the disease, he does not remember how many days it was duck food. Up to now, after 4 days of treatment, N is he still being treated in intensive care due to multiple organ failure, sepsis.

According to Dr. Grant, swine streptococcus disease has almost no specific seasonal service, but still having scattered throughout the year. Tropical Central Hospital, with patients sometimes manifest streptococcal infection in hospital. Apart from cases of N. We must be treated aggressively, at the Central Hospital of Tropical from late September until now patients continuously receiving swine streptococcus.

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