1985 Volume 59 Issue 5 Pages 489-495
Three cases with glucose non-fermentative gram-negative rods septicemia were reported. In case M. F., 70 years old man witn T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, was associated with a septicemia of Flavobacterium meningosepticum, and died after the combination chemotherapy of cefoxitin (CFX) and ceftizoxime. In case M. Y., 36 years old man, had been in good health until June 1983 when fever and generalized eruptions developed. Pseudomonas cepacia was isolated from his blood. The patient was cured by the treatment with succesive combined antibiotics of CFX and minocycline. In case H.I., 72 years old man with pyothorax, was suffered from sudden onset of a high fever. Blood culture revealed gram-negative rods identitied as Alcaligenes faecalis. The patient was recovered from the septicemia by the administration of piperacillin and cefsulodin.
