Comamonas testosteroni bacteremia in a patient with perforated acute appendicitis

Gul, Mustafa and Ciragil, Pinar and Bulbuloglu, Ertan and Aral, Murat and Alkis, Sumeyra and Ezberci, Fikret (2007) Comamonas testosteroni bacteremia in a patient with perforated acute appendicitis. Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica, 54 (3). pp. 317-321. ISSN 1217-8950

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Abstract

Comamonas testosteroni is an uncommon isolate in the clinical laboratory as a human pathogen. C. testosteroni most commonly emerges in abdominal pathologies especially in perforated appendicitis. In Turkey we report first time a case of bacteremia due to this organism, in a 22-year-old man with perforated acute appendicitis. The organism was shown to be susceptible to routine antibiotics so it was easily eliminated even after having caused a bacteremia.

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