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Letter

Staphylococcus pasteuri bacteraemia in a patient with leukaemia

V Savini¹, C Catavitello¹, D Carlino², A Bianco¹, A Pompilio³, A Balbinot¹, R Piccolomini³, G Di Bonaventura³, D D’Antonio¹

¹ Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy
² Department of Haematology, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy
³ Clinical Microbiology, Aging Research Center (Ce.S.I.), and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

^{Correspondence to} Vincenzo Savini, Clinical Microbiology and Virology Unit, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Spirito Santo Hospital, via Fonte Romana 8, 65100, Pescara, Italy; vincsavi@yahoo.it

Accepted 26 May 2009

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Coagulase-negative staphylococci are frequently isolated from clinical specimens and they represent the most common cause of bacteraemia in hospitalised patients. Particularly, venous catheter-related bloodstream infections are often due to non-aureus staphylococci. These are opportunistic pathogens in immunocompromised hosts and may behave as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance determinants.¹

A 75-year-old woman was admitted to hospital because of diffuse bone pain. A relapse of myeloid acute leukaemia was diagnosed (the first diagnosis had been made 5 months earlier), and she was admitted to the haematology department. Nine days later she developed fever (to 39°C) and chills. A Gram-negative infection was suspected, and blood samples (the set included two BacT/Alert aerobe/yeast bottles (bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) plus one anaerobe bottle) were taken for culture. A second set (including two BacT/Alert aerobe/yeast bottles, without the anaerobe bottle) was taken after 30 min, and meropenem treatment was started (1 g every 8 h, . . . [Full text of this article]

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