Luteibacter jiangsuensis blood stream infection: a first case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Luteibacter jiangsuensis is a gram-negative aerobic bacillus that was first isolated from soil samples at a pesticide factory in China and reported in 2011. Here, we describe the first case of L. jiangsuensis infection in human.

Case presentation

A 59-year-old Japanese woman undergoing treatment for Crohn's disease was admitted to our hospital with fever. Clinical examination indicated catheter-related bloodstream infection. The catheter was removed and meropenem was initiated. Morphologically identical glucose non-fermentative gram-negative bacilli were detected from two sets of aerobic blood culture and catheter-tip cultures. MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry failed to identify the bacterium, which was later identified as L. jiangsuensis by 16 S rRNA gene sequencing.

SUBMITTER: Horiguchi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10704788 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature