Acute lymphoblastic leukemia was diagnosed in a 7-year-old girl. Two months after insertion of a central venous catheter, she developed fever and complained of headache and abdominal pain. Physical examination revealed no focus of infection. A gram-negative nonfermenting bacillus was recurrently cultured from blood. Extensive biochemical testing and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing led to the identification of Ralstonia gilardii.
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Wauters, G., Claeys, G., Verschraegen, G., De Baere, T., Vandecruys, E., Van Simaey, L., … Vaneechoutte, M. (2001). Case of catheter sepsis with Ralstonia gilardii in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 39(12), 4583–4584. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.39.12.4583-4584.2001
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