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Case Reports
. 1999 May;37(5):1617-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.5.1617-1618.1999.

Septicemia caused by dysgonic fermenter 3 in a severely immunocompromised patient and isolation of the same microorganism from a stool specimen

R Grob  1 , R Zbinden, C Ruef, M Hackenthal, I Diesterweg, M Altwegg, A von Graevenitz
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Case Reports

Septicemia caused by dysgonic fermenter 3 in a severely immunocompromised patient and isolation of the same microorganism from a stool specimen

R Grob et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1999 May.

Abstract

Dysgonic fermenter 3 (DF-3)-associated bacteremia occurred in a febrile patient with acute myelocytic leukemia during aplasia. Another DF-3 isolate, identical by ribotyping, was grown 10 weeks later from stool collected in the absence of diarrhea. This is the first case in which DF-3 was isolated from blood and stool specimens from the same patient.

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FIG. 1
Ribotyping patterns after cleavage with EcoRI (a) and PvuII (b). Lanes: 1 and 2, stool and blood isolates, respectively, of the patient; 3 to 6, epidemiologically unrelated DF-3 isolates.
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