Abstract
We describe the first case of community-acquired bacteremia caused by Acinetobacter radioresistens; the patient was a 32-year-old HIV-positive neutropenic woman. Ambiguous Gram staining and poor biochemical reactivity of blood culture isolates misguided early diagnosis and therapy. Bacterial identification was based on 16S rDNA sequence analysis. A. radioresistens can be considered as a cause of opportunistic infection in immunodeficient patients.
Full Text
The Full Text of this article is available as a PDF (25.3 KB).
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- Bergogne-Bérézin E., Towner K. J. Acinetobacter spp. as nosocomial pathogens: microbiological, clinical, and epidemiological features. Clin Microbiol Rev. 1996 Apr;9(2):148–165. doi: 10.1128/cmr.9.2.148. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Berlau J., Aucken H., Malnick H., Pitt T. Distribution of Acinetobacter species on skin of healthy humans. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 1999 Mar;18(3):179–183. doi: 10.1007/s100960050254. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Bert F., Lambert-Zechovsky N. Sinusitis in mechanically ventilated patients and its role in the pathogenesis of nosocomial pneumonia. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 1996 Jul;15(7):533–544. doi: 10.1007/BF01709360. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Cisneros J. M., Reyes M. J., Pachón J., Becerril B., Caballero F. J., García-Garmendía J. L., Ortiz C., Cobacho A. R. Bacteremia due to Acinetobacter baumannii: epidemiology, clinical findings, and prognostic features. Clin Infect Dis. 1996 Jun;22(6):1026–1032. doi: 10.1093/clinids/22.6.1026. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Forster D. H., Daschner F. D. Acinetobacter species as nosocomial pathogens. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 1998 Feb;17(2):73–77. doi: 10.1007/BF01682159. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Goodhart G. L., Abrutyn E., Watson R., Root R. K., Egert J. Community-acquired Acinetobacter calcoaceticus var anitratus pneumonia. JAMA. 1977 Oct 3;238(14):1516–1518. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Ibrahim A., Gerner-Smidt P., Liesack W. Phylogenetic relationship of the twenty-one DNA groups of the genus Acinetobacter as revealed by 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 1997 Jul;47(3):837–841. doi: 10.1099/00207713-47-3-837. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Seifert H., Strate A., Pulverer G. Nosocomial bacteremia due to Acinetobacter baumannii. Clinical features, epidemiology, and predictors of mortality. Medicine (Baltimore) 1995 Nov;74(6):340–349. doi: 10.1097/00005792-199511000-00004. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Seifert H., Strate A., Schulze A., Pulverer G. Bacteremia due to Acinetobacter species other than Acinetobacter baumannii. Infection. 1994 Nov-Dec;22(6):379–385. doi: 10.1007/BF01715492. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Tilley P. A., Roberts F. J. Bacteremia with Acinetobacter species: risk factors and prognosis in different clinical settings. Clin Infect Dis. 1994 Jun;18(6):896–900. doi: 10.1093/clinids/18.6.896. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]