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Peripherally inserted central catheter-related bloodstream infection due to Tsukamurella pulmonis: a case report and literature review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2017
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Title
Peripherally inserted central catheter-related bloodstream infection due to Tsukamurella pulmonis: a case report and literature review
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12879-017-2796-8
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Authors

Jun Suzuki, Teppei Sasahara, Masaki Toshima, Yuji Morisawa

Abstract

Tsukamurella pulmonis is an aerobic gram-positive and rod-shaped organism that causes central catheter-related bloodstream infections in immunocompromised hosts. However, peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC)-related bloodstream infections due to this organism have not been reported. We describe a case of a 48-year-old man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and diffuse large B cell lymphoma who received five courses of chemotherapy including rituximab , cyclophosphamide , doxorubicin hydrochloride , vincristine , and prednisone via a PICC. Five days after the last chemotherapy course, he presented with a high fever and shaking chills. His absolute neutrophil count was 4200/μL. Cultures obtained from blood and PICC culture revealed T. pulmonis. The colony count of T. pulmonis grown from PICC culture was 10(3) colony-forming units. Therefore, he was diagnosed with T. pulmonis bacteremia resulting from PICC-related bloodstream infection. The patient's condition improved and he became afebrile within 48 h after intravenous administration of cefozopran hydrochloride, which is a fourth generation cephalosporin. PICCs can be associated with T. pulmonis bacteremia, and fourth generation cephalosporins may be effective treatment.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 47 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 15%
Other 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 16 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 13%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 19 40%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 August 2022.
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#7,058,070
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#2,286
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#114,324
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#43
of 131 outputs
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