Sphingobacterium spiritivorum infection in a patient with end stage renal disease on haemodialysis

BACKGROUND: Sphingobacterium spiritivorum is a microorganism that is ubiquitously found in the environment. However, it is rarely isolated from human clinical specimens. There are few reports to date of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum causing disease in humans. CASE REPORT: We describe a case of Sphin...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Amit, Logan, Julie, Elhag, Nada, Almond, Mike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27090094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12941-016-0141-5
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Logan, Julie
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Almond, Mike
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description BACKGROUND: Sphingobacterium spiritivorum is a microorganism that is ubiquitously found in the environment. However, it is rarely isolated from human clinical specimens. There are few reports to date of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum causing disease in humans. CASE REPORT: We describe a case of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum infection in a patient on haemodialysis, which to our knowledge, has not been described before. Further testing revealed this strain was sensitive to multiple antimicrobials. CONCLUSION: Despite interrupted courses of several antibiotics, our patient clinically made a good recovery and continued to receive haemodialysis.
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spelling pubmed-48358582016-04-20 Sphingobacterium spiritivorum infection in a patient with end stage renal disease on haemodialysis Gupta, Amit Logan, Julie Elhag, Nada Almond, Mike Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob Case Report BACKGROUND: Sphingobacterium spiritivorum is a microorganism that is ubiquitously found in the environment. However, it is rarely isolated from human clinical specimens. There are few reports to date of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum causing disease in humans. CASE REPORT: We describe a case of Sphingobacterium spiritivorum infection in a patient on haemodialysis, which to our knowledge, has not been described before. Further testing revealed this strain was sensitive to multiple antimicrobials. CONCLUSION: Despite interrupted courses of several antibiotics, our patient clinically made a good recovery and continued to receive haemodialysis. BioMed Central 2016-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4835858/ /pubmed/27090094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12941-016-0141-5 Text en © Gupta et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Sphingobacterium spiritivorum infection in a patient with end stage renal disease on haemodialysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835858/
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