A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians

Cases of central line blood infections caused by Kocuria spp. are limited in the literature. Most of those infections have been detected in hospitalized patients with severe underlying disease or those with implanted catheters or with suppressed immunity. They are usually non-pathogenic in humans, b...

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Autores principales: Mathew, Aji, Nath, Jaidev R, Modaweb, Ali, Lone, Rubina, Abuhammour, Walid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8458495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18200
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author Mathew, Aji
Nath, Jaidev R
Modaweb, Ali
Lone, Rubina
Abuhammour, Walid
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description Cases of central line blood infections caused by Kocuria spp. are limited in the literature. Most of those infections have been detected in hospitalized patients with severe underlying disease or those with implanted catheters or with suppressed immunity. They are usually non-pathogenic in humans, but few cases of opportunistic infections in adult and pediatric populations have been reported. They can be serious in certain occasions. So treating physicians should not underestimate or ignore the significance of the infection with these bacteria. We report a rare case of central venous catheter (CVC) infection associated with Kocuria varians, which was successfully treated with CVC salvage.
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spelling pubmed-84584952021-09-27 A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians Mathew, Aji Nath, Jaidev R Modaweb, Ali Lone, Rubina Abuhammour, Walid Cureus Pediatrics Cases of central line blood infections caused by Kocuria spp. are limited in the literature. Most of those infections have been detected in hospitalized patients with severe underlying disease or those with implanted catheters or with suppressed immunity. They are usually non-pathogenic in humans, but few cases of opportunistic infections in adult and pediatric populations have been reported. They can be serious in certain occasions. So treating physicians should not underestimate or ignore the significance of the infection with these bacteria. We report a rare case of central venous catheter (CVC) infection associated with Kocuria varians, which was successfully treated with CVC salvage. Cureus 2021-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8458495/ /pubmed/34584818 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18200 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mathew et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Pediatrics
Mathew, Aji
Nath, Jaidev R
Modaweb, Ali
Lone, Rubina
Abuhammour, Walid
A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians
title A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians
title_full A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians
title_short A Rare Case of Pediatric Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection With Kocuria Varians
title_sort rare case of pediatric central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection with kocuria varians
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8458495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584818
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18200
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