Clostridium baratii bacteremia associated with Kawasaki syndrome. First case report.
We experienced a case of a 3-year-old boy who presented signs and symptoms of Kawasaki syndrome. Two blood culture sets were processed by the hospital microbiology laboratory using a standard blood culturing system. The anaerobic bottles gave a positive result at day 3 after inoculation. The biochemical profiles produced by the RapID ANA II System showed that the organism was Clostridium baratii with a probability of 99%. Our case highlights the importance of C. baratii as a potential human pathogen and reports the associations with manifestations, which, to our knowledge, have not been previously described concomitantly with a clostridial infection.
Iaria
Chiara
C
Associazione Italiana per la Lotta contro le Malattie Infettive, Università di Messina, Italy.
Stassi
Giovanna
G
Salpietro
Damiano Carmelo
DC
La Mazza
Antonia
A
Silipigni
Lorena
L
Arena
Adriana
A
Costa
Gaetano Bruno
GB
Cascio
Antonio
A
D000362:Agar; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003013:Clostridium / Q000145:classification / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009080:Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / Q000382:microbiology*; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D000362:Agar