Plesiomonas shigelloides Gastroenteritis from Freshwater Ingestion in Western Pennsylvania

Plesiomonas shigelloides is a rare etiologic agent of bacterial gastroenteritis. Since the year 2000, there is only one published case report of P. shigelloides gastroenteritis. Presented here is a case reporting the typical presentation and successful oral antibiotic treatment of a rarely reported cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, after ingestion of freshwater from a stream in western Pennsylvania. Correspondence to: Vincent Peyko, PharmD, BCPS, St Elizabeth Hospital—Boardman, 8401 Market St, Boardman, OH 44512. E-mail: vpeyko@neomed.edu. The author has no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose. Copyright © 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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