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Han, Kim, Lee, Yong, and Lee: Two Cases of Campylobacter jejuni Bacteremia from Patients with Diarrhea
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Ann Clin Microbiol 2014;17(2):69-72.

Published online: 5 June 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2014.17.2.69

Two Cases of Campylobacter jejuni Bacteremia from Patients with Diarrhea

Mi-Soon Han, Myungsook Kim, Yangsoon Lee, Dongeun Yong, Kyungwon Lee

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Severance Hospital, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Correspondence: Kyungwon Lee, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Severance Hospital, Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea (Tel) 82-2-2228-2446, (Fax) 82-2-313-0956, (E-mail) leekcp@yuhs.ac

Received 20 January 201423 May 2014       Accepted 24 May 2014

Copyright © 2014 The Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

초록

Campylobacter jejuni commonly causes bacterial en-teritis but rarely causes extraintestinal infection in-cluding bacteremia. We isolated C. jejuni from the blood culture of a 20-year-old man presenting with fever and headache and also from the blood culture of a 23-year-old man suffering abdominal pain and diarrhea. This organism grew in anaerobic culture, showed curved Gram-negative bacilli by Gram stain, and was identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS).

Keywords: Bacteremia, Campylobacter jejuni, Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

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