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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Aug 1997, 2178-2180, Vol 35, No. 8
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Indwelling device-related bacteremia caused by serum-susceptible Campylobacter coli

PR Hsueh, LJ Teng, PC Yang, SW Ho and KT Luh
Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei.

Two isolates of serum-susceptible Campylobacter coli were recovered in a 7-day interval from blood from a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis whose peritoneal-caval (Denver's) shunt malfunctioned. Identical random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprints, cellular fatty acid chromatograms, and antibiograms of the two isolates indicate that C. coli has the ability to cause catheter-related bacteremia following its colonization of the catheter.

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