{"title":"The first case of bacteremia caused by Desulfovibrio legallii","authors":"Shinichiro Kobayashi , Masahiro Hayashi , Tomonori Yaguchi , Jun Taguchi , Ryo Oshima , Takahiro Hosokawa , Kaori Tanaka , Jun Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.jiac.2025.102762","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We report the first documented case of bacteremia caused by <em>Desulfovibrio legallii</em>. A 55-year-old man with multiple system atrophy was admitted to our hospital for rehabilitation. During hospitalization, he developed a fever and rigors. Blood cultures were obtained, and the anaerobic blood culture yielded spiral-shaped, Gram-negative rods. The isolated strain could not be identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry but was subsequently identified as <em>D. legallii</em> by 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16103,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy","volume":"31 8","pages":"Article 102762"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1341321X2500159X","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFECTIOUS DISEASES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We report the first documented case of bacteremia caused by Desulfovibrio legallii. A 55-year-old man with multiple system atrophy was admitted to our hospital for rehabilitation. During hospitalization, he developed a fever and rigors. Blood cultures were obtained, and the anaerobic blood culture yielded spiral-shaped, Gram-negative rods. The isolated strain could not be identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry but was subsequently identified as D. legallii by 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis.
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The Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (JIC) — official journal of the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases — welcomes original papers, laboratory or clinical, as well as case reports, notes, committee reports, surveillance and guidelines from all parts of the world on all aspects of chemotherapy, covering the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and control of infection, including treatment with anticancer drugs. Experimental studies on animal models and pharmacokinetics, and reports on epidemiology and clinical trials are particularly welcome.