Serratia plymuthica sepsis associated with infection of central venous catheter.
Serratia plymuthica was isolated from the blood and from a central venous catheter tip in a 54-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and clinical signs of sepsis. This was the seventh reported isolate of S. plymuthica from a clinical specimen and the first in which the organism was clearly a significant pathogen.
D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012705:Serratia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014680:Veins