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- Title
Catheter-Related Bacteremia Caused by the Nocardioform Actinomycete Gordonia terrae.
- Authors
Pham, Andrey S.; Dé, Indra; Rolston, Kenneth V.; Tarrand, Jeffrey J.; Han, Xiang Y.
- Abstract
Five cases of catheter-related bacteremia caused by Gordonia terrae are reported. All patients who also had the primary diagnosis of cancer experienced nonneutropenic fever as a result of G. terrae infection. All patients were treated successfully with antibiotics, with the requirement of catheter removal for 2 patients who had systemic infections.
- Subjects
BACTEREMIA; ANTIBIOTICS
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2003, Vol 36, Issue 4, p524
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/367543