Pathogens (Aug 2024)

Bacteraemia Associated with <i>Bilophila wadsworthia</i>: A Rare Case Presentation from Hungary

  • Renátó Kovács,
  • Tamás Árokszállási,
  • Aliz Bozó,
  • Ágnes Jakab,
  • Krisztina Szonja Bábel,
  • Máté Héja,
  • Kitti Bernadett Kovács,
  • Bence Balázs,
  • Eszter Vitális,
  • László Majoros,
  • Zoltán Tóth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens13090749
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 9
p. 749

Abstract

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Bilophila wadsworthia is a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium. In current study, it was identified in the bloodstream of a 69-year-old man admitted to the Neurology Clinic at the University of Debrecen, Clinical Centre, Hungary, for internal carotid artery stent implantation. Bacteraemia caused by B. wadsworthia is extremely rare, with very few cases reported worldwide. This case is notable because it is the first instance in which whole-genome sequencing of B. wadsworthia derived from blood was performed. Moreover, the sequence data have been deposited in a public database.

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