Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia with Bacteremia Caused by Herbaspirillum aquaticum or Herbaspirillum huttiense in an Immune-Competent Adult

Hariharan Regunath; Joanna Kimball; L Patrick Smith; William Salzer

doi:10.1128/JCM.01324-15

Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia with Bacteremia Caused by Herbaspirillum aquaticum or Herbaspirillum huttiense in an Immune-Competent Adult

J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Sep;53(9):3086-8. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01324-15. Epub 2015 Jul 15.

Authors

Hariharan Regunath¹, Joanna Kimball², L Patrick Smith³, William Salzer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA Department of Medicine-Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA regunathh@health.missouri.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.

Abstract

Herbaspirillum spp. are Gram-negative bacteria that inhabit soil and water. Infections caused by these organisms have been reported in immunocompromised hosts. We describe severe community-acquired pneumonia and bacteremia caused by Herbaspirillum aquaticum or H. huttiense in an immunocompetent adult male.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Bacteremia / diagnosis*
Bacteremia / microbiology
Bacteremia / pathology*
Bacteriological Techniques
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / microbiology
Community-Acquired Infections / diagnosis*
Community-Acquired Infections / microbiology
Community-Acquired Infections / pathology*
Herbaspirillum / chemistry
Herbaspirillum / genetics
Herbaspirillum / isolation & purification*
Humans
Male
Microscopy
Middle Aged
Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
Pneumonia, Bacterial / complications
Pneumonia, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Bacterial / microbiology
Pneumonia, Bacterial / pathology*
Radiography, Thoracic
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
Tomography, X-Ray Computed