[Enterococcus gallinarum septicemia in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia].
A 62-year-old male was admitted with complaints of fever and body weight loss. The patient was diagnosed as acute myeloid leukemia (M1) and chemotherapy was started. About 80 days after admission, the patient developed diarrhea with high fever. And E. gallinarum was isolated from the blood culture. We carried out PCR using primers for vanA, vanB and vanC in our E. gallinarum, and showed the existence of the vanC1. This organism should be considered as one of the possible pathogenes in the infectious complications of the immuno-compromized patient.
Yoshimoto
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Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University.
Konishi
M
M
Takahashi
K
K
Majima
T
T
Ueda
K
K
Murakawa
K
K
Sakamoto
M
M
Maeda
K
K
Mikasa
K
K
Narita
N
N
Sano
R
R
Masutani
T
T
Ishii
Y
Y
Yamaguchi
K
K
D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology*; D016983:Enterococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020713:Vancomycin Resistance / Q000235:genetics