TY - JOUR AU - Restelli, Antonella AU - Colosimo, Manuela AU - Maraschini, Anna AU - Grancini, Anna AU - Colombo, Rosaria AU - Grande, Romualdo AU - Araldi, Maria Rosa AU - Torresani, Erminio PY - 2011/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Shigella flexneri-induced vaginitis in a prepubertal children: description of a case JF - Microbiologia Medica JA - Microbiol Med VL - 26 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.4081/mm.2011.2379 UR - https://www.pagepressjournals.org/mm/article/view/mm.2011.2379 SP - AB - In prepuberal girls vulvo-vaginitis are caused by germs of intestinal origin,mycetes, Gardnerella vaginalis, protozoa. Shigella is an uncommon agent able to induce valvovaginitis in children. We report the case of a 7-year-old girl with chronic vulvo-vaginitis caused by S. flexneri. Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing revealed that S. flexnery was sensible to cefotaxime, amoxicillin, imipenem, ciprofloxacin, but resistant to amikacin, cefazolin, gentamycin, ampicillin and tetracycline. A treatment with ciprofloxacin brought to a rapid resolution of all symptoms. At the follows up at 3 and 6 months the patient did not report symptoms of infection or articular cartilage abnormality; microbiological evaluations were also negative. Even if it is a single case report and other clinical trial may be performed in order to validate this hypothesis,we speculate that in patient with vulvo-vaginal infection living in environment with low hygiene care, a carefully microbiological evaluation of uncommon agents may be performed. ER -