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Post-Operative Mediastinitis in a Salmonella Carrier

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A case of salmonella mediastinitis in a patient who was also a carrier is described following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. Local contamination was thought to be the mode of infection. Following appropriate antibiotic therapy and closed irrigation of the mediastinum recovery was uneventful.

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  1. T. Aherne

    Present address: Dept. of Surgery, 488-Moffitt Hospital, University of California, 94143, San Francisco, Calif

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  1. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin

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Aherne, T. Post-Operative Mediastinitis in a Salmonella Carrier. I.J.M.S. 153, 142–143 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02939879

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