Case Report: Case Series of Kocuria palustris Bacteremia among Immunocompromised Patients

We present three cases of bacteremia in immunocompromised patients admitted to our hospital; one patient was receiving chemotherapy for gall bladder carcinoma, the second was on maintenance hemodialysis for chronic kidney disease, and the third was receiving chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia. All three patients presented with a fever in the setting of neutropenia during the course of treatment with chemotherapy (in Cases 1 and 3) or hemodialysis (in Case 2). The blood culture samples of all the patients had pure isolates of Kocuria species K. palustris, which was identified by matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation- time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-ToF MS). All three patients presented with febrile neutropenia during the course of treatment with chemotherapy (in Cases 1 and 3) or hemodialysis (in Case 2).PMID:37722665 | DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.23-0377
Source: Am J Trop Med Hyg - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research