Not Your Garden-Variety Bacteremia: Gardnerella in an Immunocompromised Man

Prerana Bhatia; John Temple; Molly Kantor

doi:10.1093/cid/cix1054

Not Your Garden-Variety Bacteremia: Gardnerella in an Immunocompromised Man

Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Apr 17;66(9):1458-1459. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix1054.

Authors

Prerana Bhatia¹, John Temple¹, Molly Kantor^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
² Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

PMID: 29194493
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix1054

Abstract

Systemic Gardnerella infections are rare and usually associated with surgical instrumentation of the genitourinary tract. We present a case of symptomatic and transient Gardnerella bacteremia in a man with AIDS after a traumatic urinary catheter insertion.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Bacteremia / diagnosis*
Bacteremia / etiology
Gardnerella / drug effects
Gardnerella / isolation & purification*
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / etiology
HIV Infections / complications
HIV Infections / microbiology
Humans
Immunocompromised Host*
Male
Middle Aged
Treatment Outcome
Urinary Catheterization / adverse effects*
Urinary Tract Infections / diagnosis
Urinary Tract Infections / etiology
Urinary Tract Infections / microbiology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents