Delftia tsuruhatensis is a non-glucose fermenting, oxidase positive, motile, gram-negative bacillus first isolated from activated sludge collected from a domestic wastewater treatment plant in Japan. To the best of our knowledge only one case of infection with Delftia tsuruhatensis exists in the medical literature. This is the second case report of human infection having Delftia tsuruhatensis as a causative agent
C1 [Tabak, Omur] Istanbul Educ & Res Hosp, Internal Med Clin 1, Istanbul, Turkey.
[Mete, Bilgul; Aydin, Selda; Ozaras, Resat; Tabak, Fehmi] Istanbul Univ, Cerrahpasa Med Sch, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, TR-34098 Istanbul, Turkey.
[Mandel, Nil Molinas] Istanbul Univ, Cerrahpasa Med Sch, Dept Internal Med, Sect Oncol, TR-34098 Istanbul, Turkey.
[Otlu, Baris] Inonu Univ, Fac Med, Dept Microbiol, Div Mol Microbiol, Malatya, Turkey.