Unusual Methylobacterium fujisawaense Infection in a Patient with Acute Leukaemia Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: First Case Report.
Microorganisms of the genus Methylobacterium are facultative methylotrophic, gram-negative rods that are ubiquitous in nature and rarely cause human disease, mostly in subjects with preexisting causes of immune depression. Methylobacterium fujisawaense, first proposed as a new species in 1988, has never been reported as a bacterial agent of human infections so far. Here we describe a case of M. fujisawaense infection in a relapsed acute leukaemia undergoing unrelated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Molecular identification of an M. fujisawaense strain was obtained from multiple mycobacterial blood cultures.
Fanci
Rosa
R
Haematology Unit, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Careggi Hospital, University of Florence, School of Medicine, 50134 Florence, Italy.
Corti
Giampaolo
G
Bartoloni
Alessandro
A
Tortoli
Enrico
E
Mariottini
Alessandro
A
Pecile
Patrizia
P
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