A previously healthy woman in her mid-70s presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain, fever, intermittent chills and malaise for 1 week. She was clinically septic with raised inflammatory markers. Her blood culture revealed , which was susceptible to penicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid. CT of liver revealed an abscess of 8.0×7.9×8.5 cm at the left lobe of the liver. However, the abscess was not amenable for surgical or radiological drainage. She was a farmer and had close contact with her pet cats. She was occasionally scratched by her cats when caring for them. The liver abscess resolved completely without drainage after prolonged antimicrobial therapy of 109 days. She commenced on 63 days of intravenous antimicrobials and 46 days of oral amoxicillin-clavulanic acid. This case illustrated bacteraemia with a large liver abscess in an immunocompetent adult after non-bite exposure.
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