Sepsis caused by Veillonella parvula infection in a 17-year-old patient with X-linked agammaglobulinemia (Bruton's disease).
A case of a male, 17-year-old, X-linked agammaglobulinemia patient with bacteremia caused by Veillonella parvula, without a defined primary site of infection, is presented. The report demonstrates that V. parvula should not be regarded as a nonpathogenic microorganism, at least not in patients with certain forms of immunodeficiency disease.
Strach
Magdalena
M
Department of Internal Diseases and Gerontology, Polish-American Children's Hospital, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Wielicka 265 Str., 30-663 Krakow, Poland.
Siedlar
Maciej
M
Kowalczyk
Danuta
D
Zembala
Marek
M
Grodzicki
Tomasz
T
D000293:Adolescent; D000361:Agammaglobulinemia / Q000150:complications*; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D014678:Veillonella / Q000302:isolation & purification*