Septicemia in a Patient with Metastatic Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinoma.

is a rare member of the family that is rarely cultured. This report examines a case of cultured from the blood of a 72-year-old man who was ultimately diagnosed with metastatic gastrointestinal (GI) adenocarcinoma. The patient was receiving treatment for nosocomial pneumonia prior to culture of the , which led to suspicion for malignancy. Extensive GI and oncologic workup demonstrated multiple comorbidities and a primary GI cancer, which likely caused a breach in the GI mucosa and entrance into the bloodstream. After a prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay, the patient died on hospital day 23. Though rarely reported, septicemia has been demonstrated in patients with malignancy, specifically of the GI tract. Therefore, this case represents a typical septicemia patient. Given the prevalence of and the contemporary emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) microorganisms, both typical and atypical cases regarding rare members of the species have a significant role in the clinical management and public health planning.