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Severe Community-Acquired Bloodstream Infection with Acinetobacter ursingii in Person who Injects Drugs.

ABSTRACT: We report a community-acquired bloodstream infection with Acinteobacter ursingii in an HIV-negative woman who injected drugs. The infection was successfully treated with meropenem. Species identification was performed by using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Improved identification of Acinetobacter spp. by using this method will help identify clinical effects of this underdiagnosed pathogen.

SUBMITTER: Salzer HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4696709 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Severe Community-Acquired Bloodstream Infection with Acinetobacter ursingii in Person who Injects Drugs.

Salzer Helmut J F HJ   Rolling Thierry T   Schmiedel Stefan S   Klupp Eva-Maria EM   Lange Christoph C   Seifert Harald H  

Emerging infectious diseases 20160101 1

We report a community-acquired bloodstream infection with Acinteobacter ursingii in an HIV-negative woman who injected drugs. The infection was successfully treated with meropenem. Species identification was performed by using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Improved identification of Acinetobacter spp. by using this method will help identify clinical effects of this underdiagnosed pathogen. ...[more]