Catheter-related bacteremia due to Chryseobacterium indologenes in a bone marrow transplant recipient.

摘要

Chryseobacterium indologenes is a rare human pathogen although commonly found in soil, plants, foodstuffs and water sources, including those in hospitals. Formerly known as Flavobacterium indologenes, CDC group II b, it has been documented as associated with a variety of clinical infections most often in immunocompromised patients.1 The majority of the reported cases in the literature have been from Taiwan. We describe a case of catheter-related bacteremia caused by C. indologenes during bone marrow transplantation. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first report of a bone marrow transplant recipient developing catheter-related bacteremia due to C. indologenes outside of Asia.