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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2003, p. 1339-1341, Vol. 41, No. 3
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1339-1341.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Septic Shock Caused by Ochrobactrum anthropi in an Otherwise Healthy Host

Adrien Kettaneh,1 François-Xavier Weill,2 Isabelle Poilane,3 Olivier Fain,1 Michel Thomas,1 Jean-Louis Herrmann,2 and Laurent Hocqueloux4*

Service de Médecine Interne,1 Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Bondy,3 Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris,2 Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier Régional, Orléans, France4

Received 6 August 2002/ Returned for modification 14 November 2002/ Accepted 10 December 2002

Reported is a case of life-threatening septic shock that occurred in an otherwise healthy host after administration of a peripheral venous infusion of a solution contaminated with Ochrobactrum anthropi, an unusual human pathogen. The rapid onset of shock may have been due to a large inoculum caused by nonsterile practices at the time of reconstitution.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Centre Hospitalier d'Orléans—La Source, BP 6709 45067, Orleans Cedex 2, France. Phone: 33 2 38 51 43 61. Fax: 33 2 38 51 41 53. E-mail: laurent.hocqueloux{at}chr-orleans.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2003, p. 1339-1341, Vol. 41, No. 3
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1339-1341.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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