A Case of Campylobacter upsaliensis Bacteremia / 대한진단검사의학회지

ABSTRACT

Campylobacter species are gram-negative, curved or spiral bacteria. Campylobacter upsaliensis is a recently recognized human enteric pathogen associated with enteritis, colitis, bacteremia, and sepsis. This organism is very rarely isolated in clinical laboratories and therefore is little known among clinicians. We isolated C. upsaliensis from a blood culture in a 62-year-old male patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and acute pancreatitis, using various phenotypic tests and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis. The patient was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics and recovered fully. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of C. upsaliensis bacteremia in Korea.