Bordetella bronchiseptica recurrent bacteraemia in a patient with bone marrow transplantation

Lina Echeverri-Toro, Andrés Arango, Sigifredo Ospina, Carlos Agudelo, .

Keywords: Bordetella bronchiseptica, bactaeremia, transplantation, immunosuppression, bone marrow, Colombia.

Abstract

We report a case of recurrent bacteraemia caused by Bordetella bronchiseptica in an immunocompromised patient with a history of allogenic bone marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome, who was admitted to hospital with febrile syndrome. Bordetella bronchiseptica is an uncommon human pathogen which mainly affects immunocompromised patients, being a rare cause of bacteraemia.

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  • Lina Echeverri-Toro Centros Especializados, San Vicente Fundación, Rionegro, Colombia
  • Andrés Arango Centros Especializados, San Vicente Fundación, Rionegro, Colombia
  • Sigifredo Ospina Centros Especializados, San Vicente Fundación, Rionegro, Colombia
  • Carlos Agudelo Centros Especializados, San Vicente Fundación, Rionegro, Colombia Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud y Clínica Universitaria, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
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Echeverri-Toro L, Arango A, Ospina S, Agudelo C. Bordetella bronchiseptica recurrent bacteraemia in a patient with bone marrow transplantation. biomedica [Internet]. 2015 Sep. 1 [cited 2024 May 13];35(3):302-5. Available from: https://revistabiomedica.org/index.php/biomedica/article/view/2494

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Published
2015-09-01
Section
Case presentation

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