Fatal community-acquired Brevundimonas vesicularis bacteremia in an elderly patient

Papaefstathiou, Constantina; Christopoulos, Constantinos; Zoumberi, Maria; Diakakis, Antonios; Georgalas, Panayotis; Kouppari, G.

doi:10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2005.04.002

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“…According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, B. vesicularis is highly susceptible to all aminoglycosides (98 %), piperacillin (100 %), carbenicillin (94 %) and ceftizoxime (94 %), with moderate susceptibility to cefamandole (50 %) and cefoxitin (75 %), and lower susceptibility to penicillin (12 %) and ampicillin (22 %) (Clark et al, 1984). However, a wide variation of susceptibility to antimicrobial agents has been described in previous reports (Planes et al, 1992;Gilad et al, 2000;Oberhelman et al, 1994;Chi et al, 2004;Papaefstathiou et al, 2005;Choi et al, 2006;Yang et al, 2006;Kwak et al, 2009;Vahid, 2006;Mondello et al, 2006;Pelletier et al, 2010;Bhatawadekar & Sharma, 2011;Chandra et al, 2010). In our study, there was a discrepancy between the two measures of susceptibility to imipenem.…”

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Liver abscess caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis in an immunocompetent patient

Yoo

Roh

Kim

et al. 2012

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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Invasive infections caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis are very rare in humans. We experienced an unusual case of liver abscess due to B. vesicularis in an immunocompetent young male. The patient was successfully treated by liver abscess drainage and with antimicrobial therapy of ceftriaxone followed by ampicillin/sulbactam. The organism found in the aspiration culture of the abscess material was initially reported, by using a VITEK 2 system, as Sphingomonas paucimobilis. However, later, B. vesicularis was confirmed as the true pathogen through 16S rRNA gene sequencing. To our knowledge, this is the first case of liver abscess caused by B. vesicularis.

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Liver abscess caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis in an immunocompetent patient

Yoo

Roh

Kim

et al. 2012

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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“…; the authors admitted, that CLSI outlines are sometimes neglected in the literature. Strains as Brevundimonas vesicularis might contribute to fatal infections [25,26], so the disc diffusion method outlines need to be broaden.…”

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Biodiversity and antibiotic resistance of bacteria isolated from tap water in Wrocław, Poland

Leginowicz¹,

Siedlecka²,

Piekarska³

2018

Environ. Protect. Eng.

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Microbial contamination and biodiversity were determined for the drinking water samples collected from selected points of the water supply system in Wrocław, Poland. All tested samples met the requirements of Polish law, i.e., the Regulation of the Minister of Health. However, the antibiotic resistant bacteria were found. The correlation between the distance of sampling points from water treatment plants and their microbial contamination was not established. Nevertheless, the Na Grobli treatment plant seemed to produce water of higher microbial quality than the Mokry Dwór treatment plant at the moment of sampling. The identification of representative isolates was performed with 16S rRNA gene sequencing and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and the results of these two methods were compared, indicating some discrepancies. Nevertheless, bacteria dwelling in drinking water in Wrocław belonged to the phyla Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria (α-, β-, γ-Proteobacteria) and Firmicutes. The determination of antibiotic resistance profiles showed that 12 from 17 tested isolates revealed resistance to at least one antibiotic and two strains were multi-drug-resistant.

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“…[ 63 ], B. diminuta 2004 M/62 Taiwan Liver cirrhosis, Encephalopathy, Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis Bloodstream infection/CA Amikacin, Aztreonam, Cefotaxime, Cefepime, Chloramphenicol, Ciprofloxacin Flomoxef, Gentamicin, Imipenem, Piperacillin-Tazobactam, Tetracycline, Tobramycin, Co-trimoxazole Ampicillin, Cefazolin, Cefoperazone, Ceftazidime, Ceftriaxone Cefotaxime Complete recovery Han et al., [ 46 ], B. diminuta 2005 Multiple (7 Cases) USA Cancer Bacteraemia, Urinary Tract Infection, Empyema/HA Amikacin, Imipenem and Ticarcillin/clavulanate Ampicillin, Cefepime, Ciprofloxacin Cefepime, Imipenem, Levofloxacin, Meropenem, Nafcillin, Tobramycin, Ticarcillin/ clavulanate, Vancomycin Complete recovery Karadag et al. [ 38 ], B. vesicularis 2005–2011 Multiple (8 cases) Turkey Neonates Septicaemia/HA Amikacin, Imipenem, Aztreonam, Ceftazidime, Piperacillin/tazobactam Ampicillin, Cefotaxime, Ciprofloxacin, Meropenem, 7 Complete recovery, 1 Died Vahid [ 64 ] B. vesicularis 2005 W/36 USA Acute myelogenous leukaemia Bacteraemia Ciprofloxacin, Ticaracillin-Clavulanate Amikacin, Aztreonam, Cefepime, Ceftazidime, Ceftriaxone, Meropenem, Piperacillin/tazobactam Initially: Amikacin, Ampohotericin B, Gancyclovir Vancomycin Died Papaefstathiou et al., [ 65 ], B. vesicularis 2005 F/92 Greece …”

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Brevundimonas spp: Emerging global opportunistic pathogens

2018

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Non-fermenting Gram-negative bacteria are problematic in clinical locations, being one of the most prevalent causes of nosocomial infections. Many of these non-fermenting Gram-negative bacteria are opportunistic pathogens that affect patients that are suffering with underlying medical conditions and diseases. Brevundimonas spp., in particular Brevundimonas diminuta and Brevundimonas vesicularis, are a genus of non-fermenting Gram-negative bacteria considered of minor clinical importance. Forty-nine separate instances of infection relating to Brevundimonas spp were found in the scientific literature along with two pseudo-infections. The majority of these instances were infection with Brevundimonas vesicularis (thirty-five cases – 71%). The major condition associated with Brevundimonas spp infection was bacteraemia with seventeen individual cases/outbreaks (35%). This review identified forty-nine examples of Brevundimonas spp. infections have been discussed in the literature. These findings indicate that infection review programs should consider investigation of possible Brevundimonas spp outbreaks if these bacteria are clinically isolated in more than one patient.

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Fatal community-acquired Brevundimonas vesicularis bacteremia in an elderly patient

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Liver abscess caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis in an immunocompetent patient

Liver abscess caused by Brevundimonas vesicularis in an immunocompetent patient

Biodiversity and antibiotic resistance of bacteria isolated from tap water in Wrocław, Poland

Brevundimonas spp: Emerging global opportunistic pathogens

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