A case of bacteremia caused by Dialister pneumosintes and Slackia exigua in a patient with periapical abscess

Min Young Lee; Young Jin Kim; Hyun Jung Gu; Hee Joo Lee

doi:10.1016/j.anaerobe.2015.11.006

A case of bacteremia caused by Dialister pneumosintes and Slackia exigua in a patient with periapical abscess

Min Young Lee, Young Jin Kim, Hyun Jung Gu, Hee Joo Lee

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Abstract

Dialister pneumosintes and Slackia exigua are both obligatory anaerobe and known to be associated with periodontal diseases and other oral infection. We report a case of blood stream infection caused by D. pneumosintes and S. exigua. This occurred in a 78-year-old female patient that presented with general weakness and fever. We revealed that she had a periapical absecess. The blood culture was positive for D. pneumosintes and S. exigua; however, identifying them was challenging. Ultimately, 16S rRNA sequencing was used to identify the organisms. The patient recovered after being treated with ceftriaxone and clindamycin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of bacteremia caused by mixed infection of D. pneumosintes and S. exigua.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	36-38
Number of pages	3
Journal	Anaerobe
Volume	38
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2015.11.006
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2016

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Keywords

16S rRNA sequencing
Bacteremia
Dialister pneumosintes
Periapical absecess
Slackia exigua

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A case of bacteremia caused by Dialister pneumosintes and Slackia exigua in a patient with periapical abscess

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