Polymicrobial Bacteremia InvolvingComamonas testosteroni

Polymicrobial Bacteremia Involving Comamonas testosteroni

Comamonas spp. are uncommon isolates in microbiology laboratories and have been rarely observed as an infectious agent in clinical practice. They have widespread environmental distribution and have been isolated from water, soil, and plants as well as from some hospital devices such as intravenous catheters and water contained in humidifier reservoirs used in respiratory treatment. The genus Co...

Severe child abuse presenting as polymicrobial bacteremia.

Life-threatening polymicrobial bacteremia in a 7 1/2-year-old boy, was found to be caused by willful contamination of i.v. drips by the mother. The boy, as well as his diseased twin sister, had histories of long-lasting chronic otitis of unknown etiology. The importance of obvious pathologic psycho-social factors was overlooked, and diagnosis was only reached by close collaboration with clinica...

Polymicrobial bacteremia: a presentation of Munchäusen syndrome by proxy.

A Case of Polymicrobial Bacteremia in a Patient Undergoing Chemotherapy

We report an aggressive case of polymicrobial bacteremia in a patient with renal pelvis carcinoma. A 76-year-old man developed watery diarrhea after undergoing chemotherapy. He became unconscious and went into shock. Laboratory data showed severe neutropenia, renal failure, and lactic acidosis. Chest radiography showed multiple opacities. He died despite aggressive fluid resuscitation, catechol...

A 39-Year-Old Man with Polymicrobial Bacteremia

The patient is a 39-year-old man with chronic hereditary pancreatitis who presented to the emergency department and was hospitalized for abdominal pain, poor oral intake, and fever to 39.8°C (103.6°F). Cultures obtained from various port sites during the first 6 days of admission revealed gram-variable rods and cocci, including Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus viridians, microaerophilic Str...