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Recurrent vascular catheter-related bacteremia caused by Delftia acidovorans with different antimicrobial susceptibility profiles

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An 11-year-old girl with metastatic neuroblastoma developed recurrent bacteremia during sustained neutropenia after autologous peripheral blood transplantation. All febrile episodes of bacteremia were caused by single Delftia acidovorans strain revealed by ERIC-PCR. This strain became resistant to broad-spectrum penicillins and cephalosporins through antibiotic treatments. Removal of the indwelling vascular catheter resulted in resolution of the infection. So far as we know, this is the first report of vascular catheter-related D. acidovorans bacteremia in Japan.

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  1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-Cho, Showa-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8560, Japan

    Ichiro Kawamura, Tetsuya Yagi, Kazuhito Hatakeyama & Yoshinori Hasegawa

  2. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Teruko Ohkura

  3. Department of Microbiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan

    Kiyofumi Ohkusu

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Yoshiyuki Takahashi & Seiji Kojima

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Kawamura, I., Yagi, T., Hatakeyama, K. et al. Recurrent vascular catheter-related bacteremia caused by Delftia acidovorans with different antimicrobial susceptibility profiles. J Infect Chemother 17, 111–113 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10156-010-0089-x

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