Nontyphoid Salmonella Empyema in a Patient with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Dipesh Solanky; Brian Kwan

doi:10.4103/jgid.jgid_190_20

Nontyphoid Salmonella Empyema in a Patient with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

J Glob Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 30;12(4):219-220. doi: 10.4103/jgid.jgid_190_20. eCollection 2020 Oct-Dec.

Authors

Dipesh Solanky¹, Brian Kwan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
² Department of Medicine, VA San Diego Healthcare, La Jolla, California, USA.

Abstract

Pleuropulmonary infections caused by nontyphoid Salmonella (NTS) are rare, but may develop in immunocompromised hosts. We report the case of a 56-year-old male with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus presenting with a multiloculated empyema due to NTS involving the left oblique pulmonary fissure.

Keywords: Diabetes mellitus; Salmonella; empyema; nontyphoid.