First report of treatment of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bloodstream infection with levofloxacin.

ABSTRACT: The full extent of the clinical spectrum and optimal therapy of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens infections remains to be determined. We describe the first case of bloodstream infection (BSI) due to A. succiniciproducens in an asymptomatic elderly male with poor dentition that was treated with levofloxacin.

SUBMITTER: Kelesidis T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2863863 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature