Campylobacter jejuni bacteremia in Italian pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Report of two cases.

We report two cases of C. jejuni bacteremia in Italian pediatric patients affected by acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Agreeing with the most recent epidemiological data, both clinical isolates showed a typical phenotypic antimicrobial resistance patterns with combined resistance to ciprofloxacin and tetracycline. To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. jejuni isolation from the blood of ALL pediatric patients in Italy, and it provides important epidemiological information on this rare infection. PMID: 32310303 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: New Microbiologica - Category: Microbiology Tags: New Microbiol Source Type: research