期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：3
页码：1-3
DOI：10.26444/aaem/99295
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Rare diseases, almost by definition, present us with diagnostic as well as therapeutic difficulties as. They also include
infectious diseases outside endemic areas. Without expecting them, we are not preparing to fight them. Like Macbeth, we
feel safe, convinced that tropical diseases do not reach us, like Birnam forest towards his castle. Nevertheless, the forest
moved according to the prophecy of the three witches, and in a similar way tropical flora is moving towards us according
to the predictions of environmentalists. This is illustrated by the history of the presented patient, who was admitted to
hospital because of sepsis caused by Chromobacterium violaceum (CV), a Gram-negative facultatively anaerobic, oxidasepositive
bacterium producing a dark violet antioxidant pigment called violacein. This is probably the first documented case
report of sepsis in this part of the world. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the patient is the first to require dialysis
after Chromobacterium violaceum infection.
