Primary hypogammaglobulinemia presenting with prostate abscess and Fusobacterium mortiferum bacteremia in a 28-year-old man

Chien-Hung Lu; Wang-Da Liu; Chun-Fu Huang; Chun-Hua Liao; Ting-Yuan Lan; Chun-Min Kang; Chien-Chin Lin; Yao-Hsu Yang; Chien-Ching Hung

doi:10.1016/j.jmii.2021.07.012

Primary hypogammaglobulinemia presenting with prostate abscess and Fusobacterium mortiferum bacteremia in a 28-year-old man

J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2022 Feb;55(1):172-174. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2021.07.012. Epub 2021 Aug 26.

Authors

Chien-Hung Lu¹, Wang-Da Liu², Chun-Fu Huang³, Chun-Hua Liao⁴, Ting-Yuan Lan⁵, Chun-Min Kang⁶, Chien-Chin Lin⁷, Yao-Hsu Yang⁸, Chien-Ching Hung⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: b97401059@ntu.edu.tw.
² Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: b95401043@ntu.edu.tw.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: dkseneren@gmail.com.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital Biomedical Park Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Electronic address: shiva90345@gmail.com.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: d20023579@gmail.com.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: jimmyscorpio9@gmail.com.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: jake9665@gmail.com.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. Electronic address: yan0126@ms15.hinet.net.
⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. Electronic address: hcc0401@ntu.edu.tw.

PMID: 34475002
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2021.07.012

No abstract available

Keywords: Common variable immunodeficiency disease; Humoral immunity; Invasive pneumococcal infection; Primary immunodeficiency; Prostatitis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Abscess / diagnosis
Abscess / drug therapy
Adult
Agammaglobulinemia* / complications
Agammaglobulinemia* / diagnosis
Bacteremia* / diagnosis
Bacteremia* / drug therapy
Bacteremia* / microbiology
Fusobacterium
Humans
Male
Prostate

Supplementary concepts

Fusobacterium mortiferum