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Indwelling device-related bacteremia caused by serum-susceptible Campylobacter coli
P R Hsueh1, L J Teng, P C Yang
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
Two isolates of serum-susceptible Campylobacter coli were recovered in a 7-day interval from blood from a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis whose peritoneal-caval (Denver's) shunt malfunctioned. Identical random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprints, cellular fatty acid chromatograms, and antibiograms of the two isolates indicate that C. coli has the ability to cause catheter-related bacteremia following its colonization of the catheter.