Butyricimonas virosa: The first clinical case of bacteraemia


Ulger Toprak N., Bozan T., Birkan Y., Isbir S., Soyletir G.

New Microbes and New Infections, cilt.4, ss.7-8, 2015 (Scopus) identifier identifier

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© 2015 The Authors.The strictly anaerobic Gram-negative bacteria Butyricimonas species have recently been described in human faeces and have to our knowledge not been isolated in infectious clinical materials. We report the first case of Butyricimonas virosa bacteraemia in a 72-year-old man with colon adenocarcinoma, who underwent aortic aneurysm replacement surgery.