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SUBMITTER: Koh YR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3698308 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Annals of laboratory medicine 20130624 4
Sphingobacterium spiritivorum has been rarely isolated from clinical specimens of immunocompromised patients, and there have been no case reports of S. spiritivorum infection in Korea to our knowledge. We report a case of S. spiritivorum bacteremia in a 68-yr-old woman, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and subsequently received chemotherapy. One day after chemotherapy ended, her body temperature increased to 38.3℃. A gram-negative bacillus was isolated in aerobic blood cultures and ...[more]