First Case Report of Campylobacter volucris Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient

Oh Joo Kweon; Yong Kwan Lim; Byeongpil Yoo; Hye Ryoun Kim; Tae-Hyoung Kim; Mi-Kyung Lee

doi:10.1128/JCM.00442-15

First Case Report of Campylobacter volucris Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient

J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Jun;53(6):1976-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00442-15. Epub 2015 Apr 1.

Authors

Oh Joo Kweon¹, Yong Kwan Lim¹, Byeongpil Yoo¹, Hye Ryoun Kim¹, Tae-Hyoung Kim², Mi-Kyung Lee³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
² Department of Urology, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea cpworld@cau.ac.kr.

Abstract

We report a case of Campylobacter volucris bacteremia in an immunocompromised patient with polycythemia vera and alcoholic liver cirrhosis. To our knowledge, this is the first case report in which this organism has been isolated from a human clinical specimen.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Bacteremia*
Campylobacter Infections*
Campylobacter* / drug effects
Campylobacter* / genetics
Campylobacter* / isolation & purification
Drug Resistance, Bacterial
Humans
Immunocompromised Host*
Male
Meropenem
Thienamycins / therapeutic use

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Thienamycins
Meropenem