Abstract
<i>Chitinophaga terrae</i>Bacteremia in Human
Highlights
To the Editor: The genus Chitinophaga, first described by Sangkhobol and Skerman in 1981, belongs to the phylum Bacteroidetes, which includes filamentous, chitinolytic, gliding bacteria that transform into spherical bodies upon aging [1]
On July 31, 2008, a 51-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department at Nantes University Hospital in Nantes, France, because of a slowly growing left cheek mass associated with weight loss and change of general state
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis was isolated from 3 blood samples, 2 drawn using the central venous catheter (CVC) and 1 from peripheral blood
Summary
To the Editor: The genus Chitinophaga, first described by Sangkhobol and Skerman in 1981, belongs to the phylum Bacteroidetes (formerly the Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides group), which includes filamentous, chitinolytic, gliding bacteria that transform into spherical bodies upon aging [1]. On July 31, 2008, a 51-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department at Nantes University Hospital in Nantes, France, because of a slowly growing left cheek mass associated with weight loss and change of general state. Serotype O1 Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain was isolated from cultures of urine and fecal specimens. On August 26, the patient was admitted to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) after indications of toxic epidermal necrolysis.
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