Bacteremia caused by Veillonella dispar in an oncological patient

Veillonella dispar is a Gram-negative anaerobic coccus involved in only a few human diseases. We report the second case of bacteremia due to this microorganism in an elderly patient. A 72-year-old man with a history of bladder cancer presented with diarrhea, vomiting, and fever for 48 hours. After t...

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Autores principales: Cobo, Fernando, Pérez-Carrasco, Virginia, García-Salcedo, José A., Navarro-Marí, José María
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7563575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33075505
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2020.102285
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author Cobo, Fernando
Pérez-Carrasco, Virginia
García-Salcedo, José A.
Navarro-Marí, José María
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description Veillonella dispar is a Gram-negative anaerobic coccus involved in only a few human diseases. We report the second case of bacteremia due to this microorganism in an elderly patient. A 72-year-old man with a history of bladder cancer presented with diarrhea, vomiting, and fever for 48 hours. After the diagnosis of septic shock, four sets of blood cultures were taken, and three of them yielded V. dispar. Resistance to metronidazole, penicillin, and piperacillin-tazobactam was documented. Treatment with clindamycin was started, and the patient was discharged after improvement in his general condition.
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spelling pubmed-75635752020-10-16 Bacteremia caused by Veillonella dispar in an oncological patient Cobo, Fernando Pérez-Carrasco, Virginia García-Salcedo, José A. Navarro-Marí, José María Anaerobe Case Report Veillonella dispar is a Gram-negative anaerobic coccus involved in only a few human diseases. We report the second case of bacteremia due to this microorganism in an elderly patient. A 72-year-old man with a history of bladder cancer presented with diarrhea, vomiting, and fever for 48 hours. After the diagnosis of septic shock, four sets of blood cultures were taken, and three of them yielded V. dispar. Resistance to metronidazole, penicillin, and piperacillin-tazobactam was documented. Treatment with clindamycin was started, and the patient was discharged after improvement in his general condition. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7563575/ /pubmed/33075505 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2020.102285 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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