ArticleInternational journal of medical sciences2011
A rare cause of bacteremia in a pediatric patient with Down syndrome: Sphingomonas paucimobilis.
Article in International journal of medical sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Protecting Newborns from Multidrug-Resistant Infections: The Emerging Role of Bacteriophages.Viruses · 2026Review
- Diversity and transmission processes of potentially pathogenic bacterial communities in the East Rongbuk Glaciers, Mt. Everest.Current research in microbial sciences · 2026Article
- Article
- The Gram-Negative Bacilli Isolated from Caves-International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Evaluation ofIranian journal of microbiology · 2021Article
- A Rare Case of Sphingomonas paucimobilis Spondylodiscitis Managed Surgically.Journal of orthopaedic case reports · 2021Article
- Coexistence of free-living amoebae and bacteria in selected South African hospital water distribution systems.Parasitology research · 2017Article
- Epizootiological characteristics of viable bacteria and fungi in indoor air from porcine, chicken, or bovine husbandry confinement buildings.Journal of veterinary science · 2016Article
- Sphingomonas paucimobilis bacteremia in an HIV and hepatitis C co-infected patient.Irish journal of medical science · 2016Article
- A Lethal Case of Sphingomonas paucimobilis Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient.Case reports in infectious diseases · 2016Article
- In silico detection of virulence gene homologues in the human pathogen sphingomonas spp.Evolutionary bioinformatics online · 2014Article
- Sphingomonas paucimobilis infections in children: 24 case reports.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2013Article
- A Rare Case ofJournal of investigative medicine high impact case reportsArticle
- Otomastoiditis caused byAutopsy & case reportsArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Sphingomonas paucimobilis, is a yellow-pigmented, aerobic, non fermentative, gram negative motile bacillus. S. paucimobilis which is widely found in nature and hospital environments rarely cause serious or life threatening infections. In this report, a case of hospital acquired bloodstream infection due to S. paucimobilis in a patient with Down syndrome who was on treatment for presumed pneumonia is presented. A one year-old child patient who was a known case of Down syndrome and had previously experienced cardiac surgery was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia. On the 12th day of hospitalization, blood cultures were taken because of a high body temperature. One of the blood cultures was positive for gram-negative rods. After 48 hour of incubation, the sub-cultures on blood agar medium yielded pure growth of a yellow, non-fermentative, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium. The microorganism was positive for oxidase, and esculin hydrolysis, while negative for urea and nitrate reduction, citrate utilisation and motility. The isolate had been identified as S. paucimobilis by using Vitek 2 system. The antibiotic susceptibility test was also performed with the same system and the strain was found to be susceptible to piperacillin-tazobactam and other antibiotics. Treatment with intravenous piperacilin-tazobactam (150 mg/kg/day) was initiated. He responded well to the treatment and was discharged after 10 days. This case is reported to emphasize that S. paucimobilis should be kept in mind as a nosocomial infectious agent in patients with Down syndrome and immunosuppressive patients and the infections should be treated according to the sensitivity test results.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.