TY - JOUR
T1 - Colonization by or diarrhea due to kluyvera species
AU - Fainstein, Victor
AU - Hopfer, Roy L.
AU - Mills, K.
AU - Bodey, Gerald P.
PY - 1982/1/1
Y1 - 1982/1/1
N2 - The pathogenicity of Kluyvera species has not been fully established. Normally regarded as saprophytes, these organisms have been isolated from cultures of the blood, bile, and sputum of humans. We isolated Kluyvera species from the stools of five cancer patients and one healthy subject with diarrhea as well as from five asymptomatic cancer patients. Most of the patients were elderly, neutropenic, and febrile, and they were receiving antibiotics and chemotherapy. Because Kluyvera species can colonize the gastrointestinal tract of humans and can also be found in food, their potential ability to cause diarrhea in humans, especially in neutropenic cancer patients, deserves further evaluation.
AB - The pathogenicity of Kluyvera species has not been fully established. Normally regarded as saprophytes, these organisms have been isolated from cultures of the blood, bile, and sputum of humans. We isolated Kluyvera species from the stools of five cancer patients and one healthy subject with diarrhea as well as from five asymptomatic cancer patients. Most of the patients were elderly, neutropenic, and febrile, and they were receiving antibiotics and chemotherapy. Because Kluyvera species can colonize the gastrointestinal tract of humans and can also be found in food, their potential ability to cause diarrhea in humans, especially in neutropenic cancer patients, deserves further evaluation.
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U2 - 10.1093/infdis/145.1.127
DO - 10.1093/infdis/145.1.127
M3 - Article
C2 - 7054314
AN - SCOPUS:0020041333
SN - 0022-1899
VL - 145
JO - Journal of Infectious Diseases
JF - Journal of Infectious Diseases
IS - 1
ER -