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 in | APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 229 - 231 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Oxford
Blackwell
01.03.2005
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0903-4641 1600-0463 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2005.apm1130313.x |