Sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death due to Pandoraea pnomenusa infection after lung transplantation

Martin E Stryjewski; John J LiPuma; Robert H Messier Jr; L Barth Reller; Barbara D Alexander

doi:10.1128/JCM.41.5.2255-2257.2003

Sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death due to Pandoraea pnomenusa infection after lung transplantation

J Clin Microbiol. 2003 May;41(5):2255-7. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2255-2257.2003.

Authors

Martin E Stryjewski¹, John J LiPuma, Robert H Messier Jr, L Barth Reller, Barbara D Alexander

Affiliation

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. [email protected]

Abstract

A 30-year-old man died with Pandoraea pnomenusa sepsis after lung transplantation. Pandoraea species are gram-negative rods, closely related to, and commonly misidentified as, Burkholderia cepacia complex or Ralstonia species. Heretofore considered soil bacteria and colonizers that infect patients with chronic lung diseases, Pandoraea species can produce severe infections.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Bacteremia / etiology
Bacteremia / microbiology
Betaproteobacteria / classification
Betaproteobacteria / genetics
Betaproteobacteria / isolation & purification
Betaproteobacteria / pathogenicity*
Fatal Outcome
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / etiology*
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology
Humans
Lung Transplantation / adverse effects*
Male
Multiple Organ Failure / etiology*
Multiple Organ Failure / microbiology
Sepsis / etiology*
Sepsis / microbiology