A Case of Biliary Sepsis by Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides
- Author:
Sunghee MIN
1
;
Hye Young LEE
;
Jeong Hyun CHANG
;
Heungsup SUNG
;
Mi Na KIM
;
Mi Hyun BAE
;
Myung Hwan KIM
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides; Sepsis; Cholelithiasis
- MeSH: Abscess; Bacteremia; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Cholangitis; Cholecystitis; Cholelithiasis; Diarrhea; Enterococcus; Genes, rRNA; Humans; Korea; Mass Spectrometry; Sepsis
- From:Laboratory Medicine Online 2018;8(1):34-38
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: Dysgonomonas capnocytophagoides is a gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccobacillus that was formerly designated CDC group dysgonic fermenter (DF)-3, occurring as a normal flora in human gut and rarely causing human infections such as bacteremia, abscess, diarrhea, and cholecystitis. In this study, we report a case of biliary sepsis caused by D. capnocytophagoides in a patient with biliary obstruction. A seventy four-year-old man, admitted to the hospital due to common bile-duct stone, also had cholangitis caused by D. capnocytophagoides and Enterococcus avium, which were isolated from his blood cultures. D. capnocytophagoides was initially identified as D. gadei by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, but later confirmed as D. capnocytophagoides by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of human infection by D. capnocytophagoides in Korea.
