1. Case report of bacteremia due toNeisseria mucosa
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Wafa Achour, Hela Ouertani, Rekaya Baaboura, Assia Ben Hassen, Amal Lakhal, Arij Mechergui, Tarek Ben Othman, and Lamia Torjemane
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Microbiology (medical) ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Neutropenia ,Neisseriaceae Infections ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Bacteremia ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Immunocompromised Host ,Flora (microbiology) ,Mucositis ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,Medicine ,Diplococcus ,Multiple myeloma ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Neisseria mucosa ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Neutropenic patient ,Immunology ,Female ,Multiple Myeloma ,business - Abstract
Neisseria mucosa, a Gram-negative diplococcus, is part of normal nasopharyngeal flora. We report a case of bacteremia caused by N. mucosa in a 50-year-old neutropenic patient suffering from non-secretory multiple myeloma stage IIIA. This case underscores that mostly nonpathogenic N. mucosa can cause bacteremia in neutropenic patients who developed mucositis after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
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- 2013
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