Bacteremia due to Gordonia polyisoprenivorans: case report and review of literature

Bacteremia due to Gordonia polyisoprenivorans: case report and review of literature

BACKGROUND Gordonia polyisoprenivorans is a ubiquitous aerobic actinomycetes bacterium that rarely cause infections in humans. Here, we report a case of G. polyisoprenivorans catheter-related bacteremia in an AIDS patient. CASE PRESENTATION A 37-year-old man with a past medical history of AIDS-related lymphoma suffered bacteremia caused by a Gram-positive corynebacterium. The strain was ident...

Native valve endocarditis due to Gordonia polyisoprenivorans: case report and review of literature of bloodstream infections caused by Gordonia species.

We report the first case of endocarditis caused by Gordonia polyisoprenivorans and concisely review the English literature regarding bloodstream infections caused by Gordonia species.

Gordonia bronchialis bacteremia and pleural infection: case report and review of the literature.

Gordonia species are aerobic actinomycetes recently recognized as causing human disease, often in the setting of intravascular catheter-related infections. We describe a case of Gordonia bronchialis bacteremia and pleural space infection in the absence of an indwelling intravascular catheter and review the breadth of reported infections with this emerging pathogen.

Cutaneous abscess due to Gordonia bronchialis: case report and literature review.

colonies after 48 hours of incubation. The colonies became orange-salmon with prolonged incubation. Anaerobic plate (Schaedler agar) was negative. The organism was a weakly acid-fast grampositive bacillus which also showed rare branching. It was initially identified as an aerobic actinomycete. The confirmation of isolate identity was obtained by sequencing of a fragment of 1,202 bp from 16s rRN...

Multi-Organ Failure due to Paraquat Poisoning: Case Report and Review of Literature