Fatal case of Herbaspirillum seropedicae bacteremia secondary to pneumonia in an end-stage renal disease patient with multiple myeloma

Nuntra Suwantarat; La'Tonzia L Adams; Mark Romagnoli; Karen C Carroll

doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.04.011

Fatal case of Herbaspirillum seropedicae bacteremia secondary to pneumonia in an end-stage renal disease patient with multiple myeloma

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2015 Aug;82(4):331-3. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.04.011. Epub 2015 May 1.

Authors

Nuntra Suwantarat¹, La'Tonzia L Adams², Mark Romagnoli³, Karen C Carroll⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Medical Microbiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: nuntras@yahoo.com.
² Division of Medical Microbiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Microbiology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Division of Medical Microbiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Microbiology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.

PMID: 25976156
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.04.011

Abstract

Herbaspirillum spp. are rare causes of human infections associated primarily with bacteremia in cancer patients. We report the first fatal case of bacteremia secondary to pneumonia caused by Herbaspirillum seropedicae in a 65-year-old man with end-stage renal disease and multiple myeloma.

Keywords: Bacteremia; Gram-negative rods; Herbaspirillum seropedicae; Non-fermenters; Oxidase-positive; Pneumonia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Bacteremia / diagnosis*
Bacteremia / microbiology
Bacteremia / pathology
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Fatal Outcome
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / pathology
Herbaspirillum / isolation & purification*
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
Male
Multiple Myeloma / complications*
Pneumonia, Bacterial / complications*