Two Cases of Campylobacter jejuni Bacteremia from Patients with Diarrhea.

Author: Mi Soon HAN ¹ ; Myungsook KIM ; Yangsoon LEE ; Dongeun YONG ; Kyungwon LEE
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1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Severance Hospital, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. leekcp@yuhs.ac
Publication Type:Case Report
Keywords: Bacteremia; Campylobacter jejuni; Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry
MeSH: Abdominal Pain; Bacteremia*; Campylobacter jejuni*; Diarrhea*; Enteritis; Fever; Headache; Humans; Mass Spectrometry; Young Adult
From:Annals of Clinical Microbiology 2014;17(2):69-72
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:Korean
Abstract: Campylobacter jejuni commonly causes bacterial enteritis but rarely causes extraintestinal infection including bacteremia. We isolated C. jejuni from the blood culture of a 20-year-old man presenting with fever and headache and also from the blood culture of a 23-year-old man suffering abdominal pain and diarrhea. This organism grew in anaerobic culture, showed curved Gram-negative bacilli by Gram stain, and was identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS).