Sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death due to Pandoraea pnomenusa infection after lung transplantation.
A 30-year-old man died with Pandoraea pnomenusa sepsis after lung transplantation. Pandoraea species are gram-negative rods, closely related to, and commonly misidentified as, Burkholderia cepacia complex or Ralstonia species. Heretofore considered soil bacteria and colonizers that infect patients with chronic lung diseases, Pandoraea species can produce severe infections.
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. stryj001@mc.duke.edu
Martin E
ME
Stryjewski
John J
JJ
LiPuma
Robert H
RH
Messier
L Barth
LB
Reller
Barbara D
BD
Alexander
D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D020562:Betaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology