Psychrobacter arenosus

Record number:

1028

Adverse Occurrence type:

MPHO Type:

Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:

58 year old man with idiopathic medullary aplasia received 3 erythrocyte units. While receiving 3rd unit, patient became febrile to 40 °C and had chills and headache. Septic transfusion reaction suspected and gram stain of blood smear from 3rd unit showed large number of gram-variable coccobacilli. Patient placed on broad spectrum anticbiotics, followed by augmentin and ofloxacin, resulting in "rapid recovery".

Demonstration of imputability or root cause:

Psychrobacter grew from unit and from patient blood culture; DNA sequences identical.

Imputability grade:

3 Definite/Certain/Proven

Keywords:

Psychrobacter arenosus