Wauters G, Claeys G, Verschraegen G, De Baere T, Vandecruys E, Van Simaey L, De Ganck C, Vaneechoutte M
Unité de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
J Clin Microbiol. 2001 Dec;39(12):4583-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4583-4584.2001.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia was diagnosed in a 7-year-old girl. Two months after insertion of a central venous catheter, she developed fever and complained of headache and abdominal pain. Physical examination revealed no focus of infection. A gram-negative nonfermenting bacillus was recurrently cultured from blood. Extensive biochemical testing and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing led to the identification of Ralstonia gilardii.