Delftia Acidovorans Bacteremia in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
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Abstract
Delftia acidovorans (Comamonas acidovorans) is an aerobic, non-fastidious, non-fermentative gram-negative bacillus classified in the Pseudomonas rRNA homology group III that is generally regarded as an environmental organism found in soil and water and as a non-pathogen. We report the first case of systemic D. acidovorans infection in a patient without a long-term immunosuppressive condition where D. acidovorans has been recovered in pure culture as a primary pathogen.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2005.73.74
Copyright: © 2005 Rocco J. Perla and Eric L. Knutson. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Bacteremia
- Delftia acidovorans
- drug paraphernalia
- water contamination