Volume 15, Number 9—September 2009
Letter
Gordonia sputi Bacteremia
Aurélie Renvoise, Jean-Robert Harle, Didier Raoult, and Véronique Roux
Table
Summary of clinical reports involving Gordonia spp.*
| Gordonia sp. | Clinical findings, by system |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vascular | Cutaneous | ENT | Nervous | Osteoarticular | Respiratory | |
| G. rubripertincta | Bacteremia (CVC) (2) | Lung infection (2) | ||||
| G. terrae | Bacteremia (cholecystitis) (5); bacteremia (CVC) (2); bacteremia (CVC) (6)† | Granulomatous skin lesion (2); palpebral abscess (9); granulomatous mastitis (7); mycetoma of the hand (9) | Meningitis, brain abscess (2); brain abscess (2)† | |||
| G. bronchialis | Bacteremia (sequestrated lung) (4) | Recurrent breast abscess (7) | Ventriculitis (intraventricular shunt) (6) | Sternal wound infections (2) | ||
| G. polyisoprenivorans | Endocarditis (CVC) (3);† bacteremia (CVC) (3)† | |||||
| G. otitidis | Bacteremia (CVC) (6) | Otitis externa (6) | Bronchitis (8) | |||
| G. sputi | Bacteremia (CVC) (2)†; endocarditis (CVC) (2); mediastinitis (surgery) (2) | |||||
| G. araii | Arthritis (bioabsorbable tapered screw) (10) | |||||
*ENT, ear, nose, throat; CVC, central venous catheter. Patients were immunocompetent unless otherwise noted. When infection was associated with a medical device, the device is listed in parentheses.
†Immunocompromised patient.
