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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1999, p. 1617-1618, Vol. 37, No. 5
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Septicemia Caused by Dysgonic Fermenter 3 in a Severely Immunocompromised Patient and Isolation of the Same Microorganism from a Stool Specimen

René Grob,1,dagger Reinhard Zbinden,1,* Christian Ruef,2 Matthias Hackenthal,3 Ingrid Diesterweg,4 Martin Altwegg,1 and Alexander von Graevenitz1

Department of Medical Microbiology1 and Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology of the Department of Medicine,2 University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, and Second Department of Medicine3 and Section of Medical Microbiology of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine,4 Krankenhaus Moabit GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Received 25 September 1998/Returned for modification 7 December 1998/Accepted 4 February 1999

Dysgonic fermenter 3 (DF-3)-associated bacteremia occurred in a febrile patient with acute myelocytic leukemia during aplasia. Another DF-3 isolate, identical by ribotyping, was grown 10 weeks later from stool collected in the absence of diarrhea. This is the first case in which DF-3 was isolated from blood and stool specimens from the same patient.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Gloriastrasse 32, CH-8028 Zurich, Switzerland. Phone: 41 1 634 27 00. Fax: 41 1 634 49 06. E-mail: RZBINDEN{at}IMMV.UNIZH.CH.

dagger Present address: Labor Dr. Güntert, CH-6002 Luzern, Switzerland.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1999, p. 1617-1618, Vol. 37, No. 5
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.




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