Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology Department, Istanbul, Turkey.
Braz J Microbiol. 2013 Oct 30;44(2):475-6. doi: 10.1590/S1517-83822013000200022. eCollection 2013.
Corynebacterium species other than Corynebacterium diphtheriae rarely cause infections in human but rather reside in flora, however they have been reported to cause opportunistic infections in both immunocompromised and immunecompetent patients. Here we report for the first time a case of an elderly female patient presenting with a fatal urosepsis caused by a recently defined pathogen, Corynebacterium riegelii, identified on second day after patient hospitalization leading to a progressive worsening and death of the patient on 6th day.
除白喉棒状杆菌以外的棒状杆菌属细菌很少引起人类感染,而通常存在于菌群中,但已报道它们可在免疫功能低下和免疫功能正常的患者中引起机会性感染。在此,我们首次报告了一例老年女性患者的病例,该患者因最近定义的病原体里氏棒状杆菌引起致命性尿脓毒血症,在患者住院的第二天即被确诊,导致患者病情逐渐恶化,并于第 6 天死亡。