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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1227-1228, Vol. 37, No. 4
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Case of Sepsis Caused by Bifidobacterium longum

Gyoung Yim Ha,1,* Chang Heon Yang,2 Heesoo Kim,3 and Yunsop Chong4

Departments of Clinical Pathology,1 Internal Medicine,2 and Microbiology,3 College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Kyongju, and Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul,4 Korea

Received 4 September 1998/Returned for modification 16 October 1998/Accepted 1 December 1998

We report a case of sepsis caused by Bifidobacterium longum in a 19-year-old male who had developed high fever, jaundice, and hepatomegaly after acupuncture therapy with small gold needles. Anaerobic, non-spore-forming, gram-positive bacilli were isolated from his blood and finally identified as B. longum. He recovered completely after treatment with ticarcillin and metronidazole. To our knowledge, this is the first report of incidental sepsis caused by B. longum.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Clinical Pathology, Kyongju Hospital of Dongguk University, Kyongju, Kyongbuk 780-714, Korea. Phone: 82-561-770-8280. Fax: 82-561-749-5538. E-mail: hskim{at}mail.dongguk.ac.kr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1227-1228, Vol. 37, No. 4
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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