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Chromobacterium violaceum is a rare bacterium found in water and soil in tropical regions and typically presents with a localized skin infection or lymphadenitis which can progress to fulminant septicemia and even death. We describe a case of a 2-year-old boy with C. violaceum septicemia from a suspected skin source which was confirmed by wound, tissue and blood cultures. The discovery of this rare organism, subsequently led to the evaluation and identification of underlying chronic granulomatous disease.
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Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections , Granulomatous Disease, Chronic , Sepsis , Male , Humans , Child , Child, Preschool , Granulomatous Disease, Chronic/diagnosis , Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/diagnosis , Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/drug therapy , Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/microbiology , Sepsis/microbiology , ChromobacteriumABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The subgingival prevalence of gram-negative facultative rods not usually inhabiting or indigenous to the oral cavity (non-oral GNFR), as well as selected periodontal bacterial pathogens, were evaluated by culture in untreated and treated chronic periodontitis patients. METHODS: Subgingival biofilm specimens from 102 untreated and 101 recently treated adults with chronic periodontitis in the Netherlands were plated onto MacConkey III and Dentaid selective media with air-5% CO2 incubation for isolation of non-oral GNFR, and onto enriched Oxoid blood agar with anaerobic incubation for recovery of selected periodontal bacterial pathogens. Suspected non-oral GNFR clinical isolates were identified to a species level with the VITEK 2 automated system. RESULTS: A total of 87 (42.9%) out of 203 patients yielded subgingival non-oral GNFR. Patients recently treated with periodontal mechanical debridement therapy demonstrated a greater prevalence of non-oral GNFR (57.4% vs 28.4%, P < 0.0001), and a greater number of different non-oral GNFR species (23 vs 14 different species), than untreated patients. Sphingomonas paucimobilis was the most frequently isolated subgingival non-oral GNFR species. Several GNFR species normally found in animals and human zoonotic infections, and not previously detected in human subgingival biofilms, were recovered from some patients, including Bordetella bronchispetica, Pasteurella canis, Pasteurella pneumotropica and Neisseria zoodegmatis. Porphyromonas gingivalis and Tannerella forsythia were significantly associated with the presence of subgingival non-oral GNFR. CONCLUSIONS: A surprisingly high proportion of Dutch chronic periodontitis patients yielded cultivable non-oral GNFR in periodontal pockets, particularly among those recently treated with periodontal mechanical debridement therapy. Since non-oral GNFR species may resist mechanical debridement from periodontal pockets, and are often not susceptible to many antibiotics frequently used in periodontal practice, their subgingival presence may complicate periodontal treatment in species-positive patients and increase risk of potentially dangerous GNFR infections developing at other body sites.
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Chronic Periodontitis/microbiology , Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods/isolation & purification , Microbiota , Adult , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Biofilms , Chronic Periodontitis/drug therapy , Chronic Periodontitis/therapy , Dental Plaque/microbiology , Female , Gingiva/microbiology , Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods/drug effects , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Mouth/microbiology , Periodontal Debridement/methods , Periodontal Pocket/microbiologyABSTRACT
Fundamento: en ambientes subgingivales de pacientes con periodontitis crónica se han encontrado microorganismos inusuales que incluyen bacilos entéricos gramnegativos y levaduras. En estos pacientes la terapia mecánica o antimicrobiana puede ser ineficiente para tratar o controlar la enfermedad periodontal. La característica que comparten los microorganismos inusuales es la de ser patógenos oportunistas, ya que aprovechan las condiciones de inmunodepresión para originar o agravar una enfermedad. Objetivo: presentar la prevalencia de microorganismos inusuales en placa subgingival de pacientes con periodontitis crónica en una población colombiana. Método: se evaluaron 76 pacientes sistémicamente sanos que asistieron a las clínicas odontológicas de la Facultad de Odontología de la Universidad de Antioquia. Las muestras subgingivales se procesaron mediante cultivo. Resultados: se observaron bacilos entéricos gramnegativos en 20 (26.31 %) pacientes y levaduras en 10 (13.2 %). Conclusiones: estos hallazgos tienen implicaciones terapéuticas importantes que deben tenerse en cuenta para el manejo de los pacientes con enfermedades periodontales.
Background: subgingival environment of patients with chronic periodontitis have been found unusual microorganisms including Gram-negative enteric bacilli and yeasts. Mechanical or antimicrobial therapy in these patients may be inefficient to treat or to control periodontal disease. The common feature unusual microorganisms share is to be opportunistic pathogens, taking advantage of immunosuppression conditions to cause or aggravate the disease. Objective: to present the prevalence of unusual microorganisms in subgingival plaque of patients with chronic periodontitis in a Colombian population. Method: 76 systemically healthy patients who were presented in the dental clinic at the Dental School of Antioquia University were evaluated. Subgingival samples were processed by cultivation. Results: enteric Gram-negative bacilli in 20 patients and yeasts in 10 were observed. Conclusions: these findings have important therapeutic implications that must be taken into account for patients management with periodontal diseases.
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Se presenta un caso de endocarditis bacteriana, niño de seis años ingresado en el Hospital Pediátrico Provincial Docente ‘’Dr. Eduardo Agramonte Piña’’ en el mes de enero de 2006, con una sintomatología que puede inferir la presencia sospechosa de dengue. Se potenciaron exámenes que permitieron descartar esta enfermedad. En el primer hemocultivo realizado se aisló un Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, este microorganismo es un cocobacilo gram negativo, anaerobio facultativo, inmóvil, no formador de esporas que fermenta carbohidratos sin producción de gas, forma parte de la flora normal de la boca humana y es muy sensible a los antimicrobianos, resolvió con el tratamiento antibacteriano impuesto, de ceftriaxona y ciprofloxacina que fue sustituido por gentamicina y ampicillín.
A case of bacterial endocarditis is presented, a boy of six years entered at “Dr. Eduardo Agramonte Piña” Educational Provincial Paediatric Hospital on January 2006, with a symptomatology that can infer the suspicious presence of dengue. Exams were promoted that permitted to reject this illness. In the first hemoculture carried out, an Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans was isolated, this microorganism is a gram negative coccobacillus, facultative anaerobe, motionless, not spores former that ferments carbohydrates without gas production, it is a part of the normal flora of the human mouth and is very sensitive to the antimicrobial, the patient solved with the antibacterial treatment, of ceftriaxone and ciprofloxacin that was substituted by gentamyicin and ampicillin.
