Erschienen in:
01.07.2007 | Brief Report
Comparison of two bacteremic Asaia bogorensis isolates from Europe
verfasst von:
T. Tuuminen, A. Roggenkamp, J. Vuopio-Varkila
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
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Ausgabe 7/2007
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Excerpt
Asaia bogorensis is an environmental bacterium belonging to acetic acid bacteria that has a natural habitat on tropical flowers and fruits of the South-East Asia region. In humans, it may cause opportunistic infections if, for example, it is inoculated into the bloodstream by the self-administration of substances of drug abuse, presumably of plant origin. The first clinical isolate was reported from a 41-year-old woman with an end-stage renal disease being on peritoneal dialysis for 5 years [
1]. Recently, we have reported the first case of bacteraemia in a young male patient with a history of intravenous drug abuse [
2]. Soon thereafter, another case of bacteraemia caused by
A. bogorensis was found in Germany in a 20-year-old female drug abuser. She presented twice with fever within eight days;
A. bogorensis was cultured from blood during both episodes. The rarity of the bacterium and the similarities of patient histories prompted us to investigate whether these two distant infections were caused by similar strains. …
