Catheter Related Escherichia hermannii Sepsis in a Haemodialysis Patient

Cecilie Utke Rank; Peter Lommer Kristensen; Dennis Schrøder Hansen; Lisbet Brandi

doi:10.2174/1874285801610010001

Catheter Related Escherichia hermannii Sepsis in a Haemodialysis Patient

Cecilie Utke Rank, Peter Lommer Kristensen, Dennis Schrøder Hansen, Lisbet Brandi

Department of Clinical Medicine

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Abstract

Escherichia hermannii is an extremely rare etiological agent of invasive infection, and thus, the bacterium was initially considered non-pathogenic. However, in five previously reported case reports E. hermannii has been implicated as the sole pathogen. Our case report describes blood stream infection with E. hermannii in a haemodialysis patient with persisting symptoms, high fever and inflammatory markers despite appropriate antibiotic treatment until replacement of the dialysis catheter. We suspect biofilm formation to be a crucial pathogenic feature for E. hermannii in the maintenance of an infection, which stresses the necessity of antibiotic treatment along with catheter replacement in bloodstream- and catheter-related infection with E. hermannii.

Original language	English
Journal	The Open Microbiology Journal
Volume	10
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1874-2858
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2174/1874285801610010001
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2016

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