Septicemia caused by dysgonic fermenter 3 in a severely immunocompromised patient and isolation of the same microorganism from a stool specimen.
Dysgonic fermenter 3 (DF-3)-associated bacteremia occurred in a febrile patient with acute myelocytic leukemia during aplasia. Another DF-3 isolate, identical by ribotyping, was grown 10 weeks later from stool collected in the absence of diarrhea. This is the first case in which DF-3 was isolated from blood and stool specimens from the same patient.
Grob
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Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Zbinden
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Ruef
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Hackenthal
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Diesterweg
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Altwegg
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von Graevenitz
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D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008875:Middle Aged