Author/Authors :
Bayhan, Gülsüm İclal Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Disease Research and Training Hospital - Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Turkey , Tanır, Gönül , Karaman, İbrahim Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity Children’s Health and Disease Research and Training Hospital - Department of Pediatric Surgery, Turkey , Özkan, Şengül Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity, Children’s Health and Disease Research and Training Hospital - Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Turkey
Abstract :
Dear Editor, Comamonas testosteroni has been rarely observed as an infectious agent in clinical practice. The organism has the low virulence potency and infrequently causes human disease. Comamonas species (previously classified within the Pseudomonas group) have widespread environmental distribution and also survive for a long time in hospital environments (1, 2). We present a previously healthy adolescent with localised peritonitis as a complication of perforated appendicitis associated with polymicrobial aetiology including C. testosteroni.
