A case of bacteremia caused by Dialister micraerophilus with Enterocloster clostridioformis and Eggerthella lenta in a patient with pyometra.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infection by Dialister micraerophilus, an obligate anaerobic gram-negative bacillus, has rarely been described, and its clinical characteristics remain unclear.

Case presentation

We report a case of bacteremia caused by D. micraerophilus, Enterocloster clostridioformis, and Eggerthella lenta in a 47-year-old woman, associated with pyometra. D. micraerophilus was identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. D. micraerophilus was detected by polymerase chain reaction using D. micraerophilus-specific primers and E. clostridioformis and E. lenta was isolated from the drainage pus sample obtained from the pyometra uterus. The patient achieved a cure after abscess drainage and 2-week antibiot

SUBMITTER: Kitagawa H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10809547 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature