NDLI: Facklamia hominis bacteremia after transurethral resection of the prostate: a case report

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Author	Gahl, Miriam Stöckli, Thomas Fahrner, René
Abstract	Background Transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P) is one of the most frequent routine procedures in urology. Because of the semisterile environment, postoperative infections, including sepsis, are a common complication, with Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., Proteus mirabilis or Enterococcus faecalis as frequently isolated pathogens. Facklamia hominis is a gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic, alpha-hemolytic, catalase-negative coccus that was first described in 1997. To date, only a few cases of infectious complications have been described. We report the first case of postoperative bacteremia due to Facklamia hominis after TUR-P. Case presentation An 82-year-old man developed fever only a few hours after elective TUR-P because of benign prostate syndrome. After cultivation of blood cultures, antibiotic therapy with ceftriaxone was intravenously administered and changed to oral cotrimoxazole before discharge of the afebrile patient. One anaerobic blood culture revealed Facklamia hominis. Under antibiotic therapy, the patient remained afebrile and showed no signs of infections during follow-up. Conclusions Fever and bacteremia are frequent complications after TUR-P. This study is the first report of Facklamia hominis in a postoperative blood culture after TUR-P. To date, there are only a few reports of patients with infectious complications and isolation of Facklamia hominis in various patient samples. Because Facklamia hominis resembles viridans streptococci on blood agar analysis, this pathogen may often be misidentified. In this case identification of Facklamia hominis was possible with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. It has been postulated that Facklamia hominis might be a facultative pathogen and that its incidence will increase in the future.
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ISSN	14712490
DOI	10.1186/s12894-020-00762-8
Journal	BMC Urology
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	20
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2020-12-07
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Urology Internal Medicine Facklamia hominis Bacteremia Transurethral resection of the prostate Genital flora
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Case study
Subject	Urology Reproductive Medicine
Journal Impact Factor	1.7/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	2/2023

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