First bacteraemic human infection with Escherichia albertii

T J J Inglis; A J Merritt; N Bzdyl; S Lansley; M N Urosevic

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2015.07.003

First bacteraemic human infection with Escherichia albertii

New Microbes New Infect. 2015 Jul 16:8:171-3. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.07.003. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Authors

T J J Inglis¹, A J Merritt¹, N Bzdyl², S Lansley², M N Urosevic²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia; School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
² School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.

Abstract

The facultative anaerobic Gram-negative species Escherichia albertii has been isolated from human faeces in gastrointestinal infection and from a range of wild bird species. Here we report the first case of a febrile infection associated with E. albertii bacteraemia in a 76-year-old woman with gastric dysplasia.

Keywords: Bacteraemia; Escherichia; bacterial identification methods; facultative anaerobes; gut microbiota.

Publication types

Case Reports