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Five cases of bacteraemia due to Gordonia species

¹ Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

² Department of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

³ Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

⁴ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Correspondence
James C. M. Brust
jcb26{at}columbia.edu

Received February 13, 2009
Accepted June 5, 2009

Gordonia species are aerobic Gram-positive bacilli and a rare cause of human disease. To our knowledge, there are only two cases of human infection with Gordonia sputi reported in the literature. We report five cases of bacteraemia due to Gordonia species at our institution since 2005, including four caused by G. sputi. Three of these cases were likely related to chronic indwelling central venous catheters.