title: Helicobacter cinaedi-associated bacteraemia and erysipelas in an immunocompetent host: a diagnostic challenge.
abstract: Helicobacter cinaedi was initially recovered from homosexual men infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Later, it was also isolated from patients with chronic alcoholism, and anecdotally from non-immunocompromized men, women, and children. We describe a case of H. cinaedi-associated bacteraemia and erysipelas in a homosexual but immunocompetent male and the diagnostic problems in identifying the causative organism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Havenziekenhuis and Institute of Tropical Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. p.van.genderen@havenziekenhuis.nl
authors.forename: Perry J J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Van Genderen
authors.forename: Wil H F
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Goessens
authors.forename: Pieter L C
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Petit
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D004886:Erysipelas / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D016998:Helicobacter / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016481:Helicobacter Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008297:Male