Case report: isolation of Hydrogenophaga from septic blood culture following near-death drowning in lakewater.

ABSTRACT: A patient suffered a non-fatal wet drowning in a freshwater lake and developed bacteraemia several days later. Blood culture grew a Gram-negative rod that could not be identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing of the isolate identified the microbe as Hydrogenophaga laconesensis - an environmental microbe commonly found in freshwater. The recovery of multiple pathogenic micro-organisms (although not H. laconesensis ) from culture of respiratory specimens prompted the initiation of antibiotic therapy with cefepime and, later, vancomycin. The patient's clinical course gradually improved over the course of 2 weeks and she was ultimately discharged home with minimal sequelae. To our knowl

SUBMITTER: Feichtinger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10569664 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature