A Case of Bordetella bronchiseptica Bacteremia in a Patient With COVID-19: Brief Report

doi:10.7759/cureus.15976

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. 2021 Jun 27;13(6):e15976.

doi: 10.7759/cureus.15976. eCollection 2021 Jun.

A Case of Bordetella bronchiseptica Bacteremia in a Patient With COVID-19: Brief Report

Styliani Papantoniou¹, Antonios Tsakiris¹, Theodoros Ladopoulos², Georgios Kranidiotis¹, Charalampos Tamvakos¹

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¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Diabetes Center, Tzaneio General Hospital of Piraeus, Piraeus, GRC.
² Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, DEU.

PMID: 34336468
PMCID: PMC8318613
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.15976

Case Reports

A Case of Bordetella bronchiseptica Bacteremia in a Patient With COVID-19: Brief Report

Styliani Papantoniou et al. Cureus. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 27;13(6):e15976.

doi: 10.7759/cureus.15976. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Styliani Papantoniou¹, Antonios Tsakiris¹, Theodoros Ladopoulos², Georgios Kranidiotis¹, Charalampos Tamvakos¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Diabetes Center, Tzaneio General Hospital of Piraeus, Piraeus, GRC.
² Department of Neurology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, DEU.

PMID: 34336468
PMCID: PMC8318613
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.15976

Abstract

Bordetella bronchiseptica is a gram-negative coccobacillus that colonizes the respiratory system of mammals such as dogs, cats, rabbits and others and might cause upper respiratory tract infections. Although it can be rarely pathogenic in humans, there are several case reports describing infections in humans. We describe the case of a patient without prolonged immunosuppression or underlying diseases, with bacteremia from Bordetella bronchiseptica, while being treated in a tertiary hospital for COVID-19 infection.

Keywords: bacteremia; bordetella bronchiseptica; covid; dexamethasone; neutrophils-lymphocytes-ratio; opportunistic.

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