Invasive Fusobacterium necrophorum Disease in a Patient With Postpartum Bacteremia and Muscle Abscess. Issue 4 (July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Scott, Shannon; Carlan, S. J.; Busowski, Mary; Wilson, Jack; Madruga, Mario
• Is Part Of: Infectious diseases in clinical practice. Volume 23:Issue 4(2015:Jul.)
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Communicable Diseases -- Periodicals; Communicable diseases; Periodicals; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.9
• DOI: 10.1097/IPC.0000000000000239
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1056-9103

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title>Abstract</title> <p> <italic>Fusobacterium necrophorum</italic> is a gram-negative anaerobe that can be the primary pathogen in local or systemic infectious disease. <italic>Fusobacterium necrophorum</italic> subspecies <italic>necrophorum</italic> is a biovar considered to be mainly of animal origin not classically implicated in human disease. A healthy 20-year-old woman delivered a term infant vaginally without complications. She returned 13 days postpartum with septicemia-positive blood cultures for <italic>F. necrophorum</italic> subspecies <italic>necrophorum.</italic> She developed a lung infiltrate piriformis muscle abscess that responded rapidly to intravenous antibiotic treatment. <italic>Fusobacterium necrophorum</italic> subspecies <italic>necrophorum</italic> can be the etiologic agent in postpartum invasive disease with septic embolization.</p> </sec> </abstract>