biliary tract disease as a risk factor for plesiomonas shigelloides bacteraemia: a nine-year experience in a hong kong hospital and review of the literature. | we report the epidemiology, clinical disease spectrum, treatment, and outcome of plesiomonas shigelloides bacteraemia in our hospital over a nine-year period and compare the characteristics of patients with p. shigelloides bacteraemia in our hospital with those reported in the literature. during the nine-year period (1995--2003), a total of seven patients developed p. shigelloides bacteraemia. all cases occurred during the late spring, summer, and early autumn (may-october). all patients were ov ... | 2005 | 15782626 |