Vibrio fetus endocarditis

Loeb, Henry S.; Bettag, Jerome L.; Yung, Nan Kit; King, Sylvia; Bronsky, David

doi:10.1016/0002-8703(66)90479-0

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“…Similar to our finding, all except one of their strains were resistant to penicillin and cephalothin, whereas only two of seven were resistant to ampicillin. The consistent in vitro resistance to penicillin is in keeping with frequent reports of therapeutic failure with this agent in the treatment of C. fetus infections (6,13,14). The unique susceptibility of C. fetus to tetracycline and gentamicin was also noted by Butzler et al (4).…”

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“…This may in part be attributed to improved anaerobic culture techniques, which also facilitate recovery of microaerophilic pathogens from clinical specimens. Clinical manifestations of C. fetus infections are protean, including septicemia (9), endocarditis (14), septic arthritis (12), dysentery (15), meningoencephalitis (10), mycotic aneurysm (14), and thrombophlebitis (22). Antimicrobial therapy is often difficult due to the relapsing nature of infection (2).…”

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Susceptibility of Campylobacter fetus to twenty-two antimicrobial agents

Chow¹,

Patten²,

Bednorz³

1978

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

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In vitro susceptibility of 11 recent clinical isolates of Campylobacter fetus to 22 antimicrobial agents was determined by an agar dilution technique. Unlike most obligate anaerobic gram-negative bacilli, C. fetus isolates tested were relatively resistant to penicillin and cephalosporins, but exquisitely susceptible to tetracyclines and aminoglycosides. All strains were also inhibited at concentrations achievable in serum by clindamycin, chloramphenicol, metronidazole, carbenicillin, ticarcillin, and with rare exceptions, ampicillin. They were variably susceptible to lincomycin and erythromycin and highly resistant to vancomycin.

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Susceptibility of Campylobacter fetus to twenty-two antimicrobial agents

Chow¹,

Patten²,

Bednorz³

1978

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

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“…In general, it causes mild, self-limiting enteritis in a normal host. Less frequent extraintestinal manifestations include bacteremia, focal infections such as septic arthritis (5), meningitis (6, 7), or endocarditis (8), and immune mediated processes such as reactive arthritis (9–11) and rarely Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) (12, 13). …”

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Campylobacteremia in stage IV gliosarcoma with bevacizumab treatment

Liu¹

2012

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

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Primary campylobacter enteritis with secondary bacteremia was diagnosed in an immunocompromised patient with stage IV gliosarcoma. She developed mild diarrhea followed by systemic symptoms with transient generalized weakness and fever. She was treated with azithromycin and had a full recovery and without relapse through 2 months of follow-up. Her diagnosis was confirmed by a positive stool culture for Campylobacter sp. and blood culture for Campylobacter jejuni/coli.

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“…In contrast, C fetus is rarely isolated from stools and shows a special tropism for the human vascular endothelium. It is responsible for serious infections in elderly or immunosuppressed patients 20 and has been associated with relapsing bacteremia, 21 endocarditis, 22 pericarditis, 23 thrombophlebitis, 24 meningitidis, 25 arthritis, 26 osteomyelitis, 27 cellulitis, 28 pneumonia, 29 and mycotic aneurysms. 30 However, involvement of C fetus in infected aortic aneurysms is rare, and to the best of our knowledge, only 15 cases have been previously published in English.…”

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