Non‐typhoidal Salmonella myocarditis: a disease manifestation not to be missed

Vigneswaran, Nilanthy; Cheong, Elaine

doi:10.5694/mja2.51859

Topics

In April 2021, a 19‐year‐old man presented with a two‐day history of intermittent pleuritic chest pain and associated fevers. He reported symptoms of diarrhoea and vomiting 48 hours after consuming tandoori chicken pizza eight days previously.

1 Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, NT
2 Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW

Correspondence: nilanthy.vigneswaran@nt.gov.au

Acknowledgements:

We thank Thomas Gottlieb, Shelanah Fernando, Genevieve McKew and Timothy Gray for their contributions and involvement in management of the case. We also acknowledge Steve McDonald and Michael Chan for their contributions to analysis of medical imaging.

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures

1. NNDSS Annual Report Working Group. Australia's notifiable disease status, 2016: annual report of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. Commun Dis Intell 2021; 45. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2021.45.28.
2. Laidlow TA, Stafford R, Jennison AV, et al. A multi‐jurisdictional outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to backyard poultry — Australia, 2020. Zoonoses Public Health 2022; 69: 835‐842.
3. Davis BP, Amin J, Franklin N, Beggs PJ. Salmonellosis in Australia in 2020: possible impacts of COVID‐19 related public health measures. Commun Dis Intell (2018) 2022; 46; doi: https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2022.46.2.
4. Sundbom P, Suutari AM, Abdulhadi K, et al. Salmonella enteritidis causing myocarditis in a previously healthy 22‐year‐old male. Oxf Med Case Reports 2018; 2018: omy106.
5. Marchello CS, Birkhold M, Crump JA, et al. Complications and mortality of non‐typhoidal salmonella invasive disease: a global systematic review and meta‐analysis. Lancet Infect Dis 2022; 5: 692‐705.
6. Villablanca P, Mohananey D, Meier G, et al. Salmonella berta myocarditis: case report and systematic review of non‐typhoid Salmonella myocarditis. World J Cardiol 2015; 7: 931‐937.
7. Jin D, Kao CY, Darby J, Palmer S. Salmonella typhimurium myopericarditis: a case report and review of literature. World J Cardiol 2020; 12: 67‐75.
8. Chehab O, McGuire E, Wani RLS, Weerackody R. Acute myopericarditis caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis: a case report. Eur Heart J Case Rep 2020; 4: 1‐5.
9. Therapeutic Guidelines. Antibiotic. Melbourne: Therapeutic Guidelines Limited, 2021. https://www.tg.org.au (viewed Nov 2022).

Online responses are no longer available. Please refer to our instructions for authors page for more information.