Kingella kingae bacteremia in an immunocompetent adult host

Kingella kingae bacteremia in an immunocompetent adult host.

Kingella kingae is a gram-negative bacillus belonging to the family Neisseriaceae (3). It does not grow readily on the usual media, it is uniformly susceptible to penicillin, and it can be easily misidentified. This organism colonizes mucous membranes at the upper respiratory tract (8), and although increasingly recognized as being involved in human infection, it is currently considered an unus...

Kingella kingae Causing Septic Arthritis of the Knee in an Immunocompetent Adult

The bacterium Kingella kingae is a species of Gram-negative coccobacillus usually found in the oropharynx. This is an emerging pathogen reported to cause bacteraemia, endocarditis, and osteoarticular infections in children and endocarditis in the immunocompromised adult. However, there are few cases of isolated joint infections reported in the immunocompetent adult. Due to specific isolation te...

Septic arthritis due to Kingella kingae in an adult.

Kingella kingae keratitis.

We present the first two cases of Kingella kingae keratitis in adults. This species is a rare isolate from ophthalmic samples for which final identification was obtained with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. One of the patients recovered uneventfully with topical therapy. Results from the second patient cannot be confirmed as he was lost to follow-up.

Clostridium cadaveris bacteremia in an immunocompetent host.

Clostridium cadaveris bacteremia is extremely rare; the few cases reported in the literature have occurred in immunocompromised patients. We describe a case of C. cadaveris bacteremia in an immunocompetent host with necrotic decubitus. A 42-year-old nursing home patient with paraplegia, secondary to a gun shot injury, was admitted to the hospital on 8 March 1999 for fever and hypotension. He ha...