Disseminated "Haemophilus quentini" infection in a patient with multiple myeloma - a case report and review of the literature.
Biofire
FilmArray
Haemophilus
Immunosuppression
Influenzae
MALDI-TOF
Meningitis
Misidentification
Multiple myeloma
Nontypable
Osteomyelitis
PCR
Pneumonia
Polyarthritis
Quentini
VITEK2
Journal
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
ISSN: 1879-0070
Titre abrégé: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8305899
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2019
Jul 2019
Historique:
received:
30
10
2018
revised:
23
01
2019
accepted:
02
02
2019
pubmed:
11
3
2019
medline:
8
11
2019
entrez:
11
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We describe a case report of a 56-year-old male with undiagnosed multiple myeloma who had severe sepsis associated with pneumonia, meningitis, polyarthritis, and osteomyelitis related to invasive "Haemophilus quentini" infection. The genus was misidentified as H. influenzae by the common bacterial identification systems including newly introduced syndromic PCR-based methods. We review the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory aspects of this rare, cryptic species of Haemophilus.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30852050
pii: S0732-8893(18)30563-7
doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.02.004
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
293-296Informations de copyright
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