Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides bacteraemia in a neutropenic patient treated for acute myeloid leukaemia : Case report

Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides , formerly known as CDC group DF‐3, is an opportunistic pathogen associated with diarrhoea and very rarely bacteraemia. We report a case of D. capnocytophagoides found in blood cultures from a severely neutropenic patient treated for acute myeloid leukaemia. The isola...

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Published inAPMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 229 - 231
Main Authors HANSEN, Per S, JENSEN, Thøger G, GAHRN-HANSEN, Bente
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell 01.03.2005
Subjects
Bacterial diseases
Bacterial sepsis
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human bacterial diseases
Infectious diseases
Medical sciences
Microbiology
Human
Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides
Leukopenia
Microbiology
Acute
bacteraemia
Malignant hemopathy
Bacteremia
Infection
Case study
Immunology
acute myeloid leukaemia
DF-3
Bacteriosis
Acute myelocytic leukemia
Neutropenia
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Summary:Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides , formerly known as CDC group DF‐3, is an opportunistic pathogen associated with diarrhoea and very rarely bacteraemia. We report a case of D. capnocytophagoides found in blood cultures from a severely neutropenic patient treated for acute myeloid leukaemia. The isolate was found resistant to penicillin, cephalosporins, meropenem, aminoglycosides and ciprofloxacin, and susceptible to ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, clindamycin and trimethoprim‐sulphamethoxazole. It was identified using conventional phenotypic testing but remained unidentified by the automated identification system (Vitek‐2) as this system did not contain DF‐3 or D. capnocytophagoides in its database.
ISSN:0903-4641
1600-0463
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0463.2005.apm1130313.x