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Catheter-related bacteremia due to Chryseobacterium indologenes in a bone marrow transplant recipient

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Chryseobacterium indologenes is a rare human pathogen although commonly found in soil, plants, foodstuffs and water sources, including those in hospitals. Formerly known as Flavobacterium indologenes, CDC group II b, it has been documented as associated with a variety of clinical infections most often in immunocompromised patients.1 The majority of the reported cases in the literature have been from Taiwan. We describe a case of catheter-related bacteremia caused by C. indologenes during bone marrow transplantation. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of a bone marrow transplant recipient developing catheter-related bacteremia due to C. indologenes outside of Asia.

A 52-year-old male patient was admitted to our institution in March 2004 with clinical signs of pancytopenia. A diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS, normal karyotype, subtype RAEB-T by the French–American–British Classification) was made, and induction chemotherapy was begun with cytarabine and daunorubicine. On attaining remission with this induction regimen, he received two courses of consolidation therapy; firstly with cytarabine and secondly with mitoxantrone and etoposide. The patient remained in complete remission and was discharged in August 2004.

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Akay, M., Gunduz, E. & Gulbas, Z. Catheter-related bacteremia due to Chryseobacterium indologenes in a bone marrow transplant recipient. Bone Marrow Transplant 37, 435–436 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1705261

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