Port-related Delftia tsuruhatensis bacteremia in a patient with breast cancer

Tabak, O.; Mete, B.; Aydin, S.; Mandel, N.M.; Otlu, B.; Ozaras, R.; Tabak, F.

New Microbiologica 36(2): 199-201

2013


ISSN/ISBN: 1121-7138
PMID: 23686127
Document Number: 670846
Delftia tsuruhatensis is a non-glucose fermenting, oxidase positive, motile, gram-negative bacillus first isolated from activated sludge collected from a domestic wastewater treatment plant in Japan. To the best of our knowledge only one case of infection with Delftia tsuruhatensis exists in the medical literature. This is the second case report of human infection having Delftia tsuruhatensis as a causative agent.

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