Bacteremia due to Rahnella aquatilis in a Patient with a Chemoport

Woo Joo Lee; Youngpeck Song; Sang Young Park; Mi Jeong Kim

doi:10.3947/ic.2019.51.2.191

Bacteremia due to Rahnella aquatilis in a Patient with a Chemoport

Infect Chemother. 2019 Jun;51(2):191-195. doi: 10.3947/ic.2019.51.2.191.

Authors

Woo Joo Lee¹, Youngpeck Song², Sang Young Park³, Mi Jeong Kim⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Inseong Hallym Hospital, Incheon, Korea. dawn728728@naver.com.
² Department of General surgery, Inseong Hallym Hospital, Incheon, Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Inseong Hallym Hospital, Incheon, Korea.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Inseong Hallym Hospital, Incheon, Korea.

Abstract

Rahnella aquatilis, a saprophytic organism, is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family. The natural habitat of this organism is fresh water, and it is rarely found in clinical specimens. Clinical conditions ascribed to this organism include bacteremia, respiratory infection, urinary tract infection, wound infection in an immunocompromised host, and infective endocarditis in patients with congenital heart diseases. Here, we report a case of bacteremia due to R. aquatilis in a woman with breast cancer who had received chemotherapy through a chemoport. To our knowledge, this is the second case of bacteremia caused by this organism in a patient with cancer in Korea.

Keywords: Bacteremia; Breast cancer; Chemoport; Chemotherapy; Rahnella aquatilis.

Publication types

Case Reports