Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

BACKGROUND: Micrococcus species may cause intracranial abscesses, meningitis, pneumonia, and septic arthritis in immunosuppressed or immunocompetent hosts. In addition, strains identified as Micrococcus spp. have been reported recently in infections associated with indwelling intravenous lines, cont...

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Autores principales: Altuntas, Fevzi, Yildiz, Orhan, Eser, Bülent, Gündogan, Kürsat, Sumerkan, Bulent, Çetin, Mustafa
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15615593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-4-62
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author Altuntas, Fevzi
Yildiz, Orhan
Eser, Bülent
Gündogan, Kürsat
Sumerkan, Bulent
Çetin, Mustafa
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Yildiz, Orhan
Eser, Bülent
Gündogan, Kürsat
Sumerkan, Bulent
Çetin, Mustafa
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description BACKGROUND: Micrococcus species may cause intracranial abscesses, meningitis, pneumonia, and septic arthritis in immunosuppressed or immunocompetent hosts. In addition, strains identified as Micrococcus spp. have been reported recently in infections associated with indwelling intravenous lines, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis fluids, ventricular shunts and prosthetic valves. CASE PRESENTATION: We report on the first case of a catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria rosea, a gram-positive microorganism belonging to the family Micrococcaceae, in a 39-year-old man undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation due to relapsed Hodgkin disease. This uncommon pathogen may cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. CONCLUSIONS: This report presents a case of Kocuria rosea catheter related bacteremia after stem cell transplantation successfully treated with vancomycin and by catheter removal.
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spelling pubmed-5450572005-01-23 Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Altuntas, Fevzi Yildiz, Orhan Eser, Bülent Gündogan, Kürsat Sumerkan, Bulent Çetin, Mustafa BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Micrococcus species may cause intracranial abscesses, meningitis, pneumonia, and septic arthritis in immunosuppressed or immunocompetent hosts. In addition, strains identified as Micrococcus spp. have been reported recently in infections associated with indwelling intravenous lines, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis fluids, ventricular shunts and prosthetic valves. CASE PRESENTATION: We report on the first case of a catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria rosea, a gram-positive microorganism belonging to the family Micrococcaceae, in a 39-year-old man undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation due to relapsed Hodgkin disease. This uncommon pathogen may cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. CONCLUSIONS: This report presents a case of Kocuria rosea catheter related bacteremia after stem cell transplantation successfully treated with vancomycin and by catheter removal. BioMed Central 2004-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC545057/ /pubmed/15615593 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-4-62 Text en Copyright © 2004 Altuntas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Altuntas, Fevzi
Yildiz, Orhan
Eser, Bülent
Gündogan, Kürsat
Sumerkan, Bulent
Çetin, Mustafa
Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
title Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
title_full Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
title_fullStr Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
title_full_unstemmed Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
title_short Catheter-related bacteremia due to Kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
title_sort catheter-related bacteremia due to kocuria rosea in a patient undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15615593
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-4-62
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