Ochrobactrum anthropi bacteremia in a child with inborn error of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation.
OBJECTIVE
To report an incident of bacteremia caused by Ochrobactrum anthropi.


METHODS
The case of a female child aged 2 years and 10 months with a known history of long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency who developed O. anthropi bacteremia during hospital stay is presented. Patient's history, clinical findings, laboratory and radiological investigations were thoroughly reviewed. The cultured organism was identified using MicroScan WalkAway 96 SI (Dade Behring) as well as by conventional techniques. Imipenem resistance was confirmed by the conventional Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion technique on Muller-Hinton agar with no zone of inhibition around a 10-mug imipenem disk (Hi Media) using the 0.5 McFarland standard.


CONCLUSIONS
This report shows O. anthropi as a rare nosocomial pathogen that affected a patient who was immunocompromised. The O. anthropi showed multidrug resistance.
Aly
Nasser Yehia A
NY
Department of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.
Salmeen
Hadeel N
HN
Joshi
Rajinder M
RM
D015094:3-Hydroxyacyl CoA Dehydrogenases / Q000172:deficiency*; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D063989:Long-Chain-3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase; D028361:Mitochondrial Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D020621:Ochrobactrum anthropi
D015094:3-Hydroxyacyl CoA Dehydrogenases; D063989:Long-Chain-3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase