Port-related Delftia Tsuruhatensis bacteremia in a patient with breast cancer

TABAK O., Mete B., Aydin S., Mandel N. M., OTLU B., Ozaras R., ...More

NEW MICROBIOLOGICA, vol.36, no.2, pp.199-201, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 36 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Journal Name: NEW MICROBIOLOGICA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.199-201
  • Keywords: Delftia tsuruhatensis, Bacteremia
  • Inonu University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Delftia tsuruhatensis is a non-glucose fermenting, oxidase positive, motile, gram-negative bacillus first isolated from activated sludge collected from a domestic wastewater treatment plant in Japan. To the best of our knowledge only one case of infection with Delftia tsuruhatensis exists in the medical literature. This is the second case report of human infection having Delftia tsuruhatensis as a causative agent