Empyema caused by Clostridium bifermentans: A case report
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Auteurs : Safa Edagiz ; Phil Lagace-Wiens ; John Embil ; James Karlowsky ; Andrew WalktySource :
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Previously considered to be nonpathogenic,
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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Empyema caused by <italic>Clostridium bifermentans</italic>: A case report</title><author><name sortKey="Edagiz, Safa" sort="Edagiz, Safa" uniqKey="Edagiz S" first="Safa" last="Edagiz">Safa Edagiz</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af1-idmm-26-105">Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba;</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lagace Wiens, Phil" sort="Lagace Wiens, Phil" uniqKey="Lagace Wiens P" first="Phil" last="Lagace-Wiens">Phil Lagace-Wiens</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af1-idmm-26-105">Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba;</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af2-idmm-26-105">Diagnostic Services Manitoba;</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Embil, John" sort="Embil, John" uniqKey="Embil J" first="John" last="Embil">John Embil</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af3-idmm-26-105">Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious 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over the past three decades, ranging from septic arthritis to endocarditis. The authors of this article describe a case involving a 60-year-old man who was found to have an empyema caused by <italic>C bifermentans</italic>. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">PGI</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>The Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1712-9532</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1918-1493</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Pulsus Group Inc</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">26015796</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4419813</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">idmm-26-105</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Case Report</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Empyema caused by <italic>Clostridium bifermentans</italic>: A case report</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Edagiz</surname><given-names>Safa</given-names></name><degrees>MD</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-idmm-26-105"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lagace-Wiens</surname><given-names>Phil</given-names></name><degrees>MD</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-idmm-26-105"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2-idmm-26-105"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Embil</surname><given-names>John</given-names></name><degrees>MD</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3-idmm-26-105"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Karlowsky</surname><given-names>James</given-names></name><degrees>PhD</degrees><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-idmm-26-105"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2-idmm-26-105"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Walkty</surname><given-names>Andrew</given-names></name><degrees>MD</degrees><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1-idmm-26-105"></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-idmm-26-105"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2-idmm-26-105"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3-idmm-26-105"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="af1-idmm-26-105"><label>1</label>Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba;</aff><aff id="af2-idmm-26-105"><label>2</label>Diagnostic Services Manitoba;</aff><aff id="af3-idmm-26-105"><label>3</label>Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba</aff><author-notes><corresp id="c1-idmm-26-105">Correspondence: Dr Andrew Walkty, MS673B Microbiology, Health Sciences Centre, 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9. Telephone 204-787-1161, fax 204-787-4699, e-mail <email>awalkty@dsmanitoba.ca</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><season>Mar-Apr</season><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>105</fpage><lpage>107</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright© 2015 Pulsus Group Inc. All rights reserved</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year><license><license-p>This open-access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC) (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits reuse, distribution and reproduction of the article, provided that the original work is properly cited and the reuse is restricted to noncommercial purposes. For commercial reuse, contact <email>support@pulsus.com</email></license-p></license></permissions><abstract abstract-type="toc"><p>Previously considered to be nonpathogenic, <italic>Clostridium bifermentans</italic> has been implicated in a wide variety of infections over the past three decades, ranging from septic arthritis to endocarditis. The authors of this article describe a case involving a 60-year-old man who was found to have an empyema caused by <italic>C bifermentans</italic>. The authors review similar cases and discuss the course of treatment for this infection.</p></abstract><abstract><p>A case of pneumonia with associated empyema caused by <italic>Clostridium bifermentans</italic> is described. <italic>C bifermentans</italic> is an anaerobic, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacillus. This organism is infrequently reported as a cause of infection in humans, and older publications tended to regard it as nonpathogenic. However, in more recent reports, <italic>C bifermentans</italic> has been documented as a cause of septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, soft tissue infection, abdominal infections, brain abscess, bacteremia and endocarditis. The present case is the third reported case of empyema caused by <italic>C bifermentans,</italic> and it serves to further define the spectrum of illness due to this uncommon organism.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="fr"><p>Les auteurs décrivent un cas de pneumonie associé à de l’empyème attribuable à un <italic>Clostridium bifermentans</italic>. Le <italic>C bifermentans</italic> est un bacille anaérobique sporulé Gram positif. Il est rarement signalé comme cause d’infection chez les humains, et les publications plus anciennes ont tendance à le considérer comme non pathogène. Cependant, dans des rapports plus récents, le <italic>C bifermentans</italic> est attesté comme cause d’arthrite septique, d’ostéomyélite, d’infection des tissus mous, d’infection abdominale, d’abcès du cerveau, de bactériémie et d’endocardite. Le présent cas, qui est le troisième cas déclaré d’empyème attribuable au <italic>C bifermentans</italic>, contribue à mieux définir le spectre de maladie causé par cet organisme peu courant.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group><kwd><italic> Clostridium bifermentans</italic></kwd><kwd>Empyema</kwd><kwd>Pneumonia</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec><title>CASE PRESENTATION</title><p>A 60-year-old man with a medical history significant only for an anxiety disorder presented to a community hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba with a four-day history of increasing fatigue, weakness, cough and shortness of breath. The patient also complained of sharp right-sided pleuritic chest pain, as well as right upper quadrant abdominal pain associated with deep breathing. He denied nausea and vomiting. A review of systems was otherwise negative. The patient was a heavy smoker and reported occasional alcohol consumption. He denied the use of intravenous recreational drugs.</p><p>On physical examination at the time of presentation, the patient was noted to be febrile, with an oral temperature of 39.2°C. He was otherwise hemodynamically stable. The patient was edentulous. On respiratory examination, decreased air entry was noted in the right lower and middle lobes. Bronchial breath sounds were noted at the right lung base, and crepitations were heard with auscultation over the rest of the right lung. The abdomen was tender to palpation in the right upper quadrant. The remainder of the physical examination was unremarkable. Laboratory investigations performed on presentation demonstrated an elevated total leukocyte count (17.8×10<sup>9</sup> cells/L) with a neutrophil predominance (neutrophil count 16.12×10<sup>9</sup> cells/L). Blood cultures (aerobic and anaerobic) were negative. On chest radiography, a right-sided pneumothorax with right lower lobe consolidation and associated pleural fluid was apparent (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1-idmm-26-105">Figure 1</xref>). The patient underwent a noncontrast computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen to rule out a subdiaphragmatic abscess in view of the right upper quadrant abdominal pain. No intra-abdominal abnormality was noted; however, the assessment did confirm a right-sided hydropneumothorax, with areas of pulmonary consolidation and loculated pleural fluid.</p><p>The patient was admitted to hospital. A chest tube was placed, and empirical antimicrobial therapy with a combination of levofloxacin and metronidazole was initiated. A sample of pleural fluid was submitted to the microbiology laboratory for further analysis. No polymorphonuclear cells or bacteria were observed on Gram stain. The aerobic culture did not demonstrate any bacterial growth following 72 h of incubation. However, after 48 h of incubation, a large Gram-positive spore-forming bacillus was recovered on anaerobic culture. The organism was subsequently identified as <italic>Clostridium bifermentans</italic> using a Vitek<sup>™</sup> 2 ANC card (bioMérieux, Canada). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by E-test (bioMérieux, Canada), with minimum inhibitory concentrations interpreted according to 2012 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute breakpoints for anaerobic bacteria (<xref rid="b1-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>). The isolate was susceptible to amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefoxitin, clindamycin, meropenem, metronidazole and penicillin.</p><p>On the third day postadmission, the patient continued to complain of significant dyspnea and chest pain. A CT scan of the chest was performed with contrast and this demonstrated a right main pulmonary artery embolus. The patient clinically deteriorated and ultimately required admission to the intensive care unit. His antimicrobial therapy was changed to a combination of piperacillin-tazobactam and levofloxacin, and heparin was initiated as treatment for the pulmonary embolus. Fifteen days postadmission, the patient underwent a thoracotomy and decortication of the right lung. Empyema fluid obtained at the time of surgery was submitted to the microbiology laboratory. <italic>C bifermentans</italic> was once again recovered on anaerobic culture. Postoperatively, antimicrobial therapy with piperacillin-tazobactam alone was continued.</p><p>Following surgery, the patient experienced intermittent low-grade fevers (approximately 38°C) and ongoing hypoxia requiring 2 L of oxygen via nasal prongs. Repeat chest radiography revealed a loculated right-sided pneumothorax with a small amount of fluid remaining in the empyema cavity. Twenty-nine days after the initial surgical procedure (44 days postadmission), the patient was taken back to the operating room for a second thoracotomy, right rib resection and empyema drainage. Lung tissue obtained at the time of this surgery for aerobic and anaerobic bacterial culture was found to be sterile. After the second surgery, the antimicrobial therapy was changed to a combination of ceftriaxone and metronidazole. An echocardiogram was performed, which did not demonstrate any evidence of endocarditis or other valvular pathology. The patient gradually improved over a period of several weeks. He was ultimately discharged home 76 days post-admission with a prescription for oral metronidazole to complete an additional 10 days of therapy as an outpatient (arbitrary treatment duration of six weeks following the final surgical drainage procedure).</p></sec><sec sec-type="discussion"><title>DISCUSSION</title><p>Bacteria belonging to the genus <italic>Clostridium</italic> are anaerobic Gram-positive rods with the ability to form endospores (<xref rid="b2-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>,<xref rid="b3-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>). More than 200 species and subspecies have been recognized to date. <italic>Clostridium</italic> species are ubiquitous in the environment. They may be found in soil, sewage, marine sediment and feces (<xref rid="b2-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>,<xref rid="b3-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>). <italic>Clostridium</italic> species are part of the normal flora of the intestinal tract of humans and other animals, and may also be isolated from the female genital tract and the oral mucosa (<xref rid="b2-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>).</p><p><italic>C bifermentans</italic> was first described in 1902 under the name <italic>Bacillus bifermentans sporogenes</italic> (<xref rid="b4-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>). The name ‘bifermentans’ relates to the ability of this organism to ferment both carbohydrates and amino acids (<xref rid="b5-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">5</xref>). It may be differentiated from other members of the genus <italic>Clostridium</italic>, in part, by a negative urease test, and positive indole and lecithinase tests (<xref rid="b2-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">2</xref>). Older publications in the literature tended to regard <italic>C bifermentans</italic> as nonpathogenic (<xref rid="b4-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>,<xref rid="b6-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>). In somewhat dated animal studies involving mice and guinea pigs, <italic>C bifermentans</italic> did not demonstrate any lethal or dermatonecrotic properties (<xref rid="b4-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>,<xref rid="b6-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>). Furthermore, before 1970, only two cases of human infection due to this organism had been reported (<xref rid="b7-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>,<xref rid="b8-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>). These included a contaminated war wound with very poor documentation describing the infection, and a case of food poisoning (<xref rid="b7-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>,<xref rid="b8-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>). However, over the past three decades, several case reports have been published in the English language documenting a variety of clinical infectious due to this bacteria. <italic>C bifermentans</italic> has been described as a cause of septic arthritis, liver abscess following blunt abdominal trauma, abdominal abscess (in association with <italic>Cardiobacterium hominis</italic>), delayed brain abscess due to a retained foreign body, metastatic osteomyelitis, soft tissue infection and endocarditis (<xref rid="b7-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>,<xref rid="b9-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>–<xref rid="b15-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>). Furthermore, in various published series of <italic>Clostridium</italic> species bacteremia, <italic>C bifermentans</italic> typically accounts for a small percentage of cases (<xref rid="b16-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">16</xref>–<xref rid="b18-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">18</xref>). It is likely that the increased reporting of this organism reflects, at least in part, improved laboratory methods for detection and identification.</p><p>Pleuropulmonary disease, including pneumonia and/or empyema, is an uncommon manifestation of infection due to <italic>Clostridium</italic> species in the absence of preceding trauma (<xref rid="b19-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">19</xref>). Several clostridial species have been documented as a cause of pleuropulmonary infection, including <italic>Clostridium perfringens</italic>, <italic>Clostridium sordellii</italic>, <italic>Clostridium sporogenes</italic>, <italic>Clostridium paraputrificum</italic>, <italic>Clostridium difficile</italic>, <italic>Clostridium septicum</italic>, <italic>Clostridium cadaveris</italic> and <italic>Clostridium tetani</italic> (<xref rid="b19-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">19</xref>–<xref rid="b23-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">23</xref>). <italic>C bifermentans</italic> has only been reported as a cause of pulmonary infection/empyema in two other publications (<xref rid="b24-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>,<xref rid="b25-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>). Jonsson et al (<xref rid="b24-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>) described a 60-year-old man who presented with fever, cough and pleuritic chest pain. A large pleural effusion was demonstrated on chest radiography. Cultures of the pleural fluid grew <italic>C bifermentans</italic> and <italic>Bacillus cereus</italic>. The patient improved following thoracotomy with decortication and appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Misra and Hurst (<xref rid="b25-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>) reported a 41-year-old woman who presented with cough, hemoptysis and pleuritic chest pain. A lung scan performed on admission was consistent with pulmonary emboli and the patient was treated with heparin. She subsequently deteriorated in hospital, with repeat chest radiography demonstrating pulmonary infiltrates and a pneumothorax that appeared to communicate with a cavitary lesion in the chest. <italic>C bifermentans</italic> was recovered from blood and pleural fluid cultures. The patient succumbed to complications of the illness (<xref rid="b25-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>).</p><p>In both of the previously published cases of <italic>C bifermentans</italic> empyema as well as the current case, it is unclear whether infection occurred secondary to hematogenous spread, inhalation or aspiration of the organism, although inhalation was favoured in the report by Jonsson et al (<xref rid="b24-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">24</xref>). The case presented here is similar to the case described by Misra and Hurst (<xref rid="b25-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">25</xref>) in that the infection occurred in the setting of a pulmonary embolus. Given the reported low virulence of <italic>C bifermentans</italic>, it is tempting to speculate that tissue injury/infarction secondary to a pulmonary embolus may have predisposed our patient to develop this infection. A septic embolus would also be possible as a mechanism of infection, although blood cultures were negative. Unfortunately, the lack of an infused chest CT scan on presentation prevents determination of whether the pulmonary embolus was present at the start of the illness or whether it occurred in hospital once the infection was already established. Alternatively, the infection may have occurred secondary to aspiration, although the patient did not have any risk factors for aspiration specifically identified. It should be noted that the possibility of polymicrobial infection could not be completely excluded because all pleural fluid and tissue specimens were obtained after the start of antimicrobial therapy. Thus, the patient remained on broad-spectrum antimicrobials during his stay in hospital. The etiology of the pneumothorax in the present case also remains uncertain, as is its association (if any) with the development of infection. With the history of smoking, it is possible that our patient did, in fact, have underlying pulmonary disease, and this may have been a predisposing factor for the pneumothorax and/or the empyema.</p></sec><sec><title>CONCLUSION</title><p>The present report describes a case of pneumonia/empyema caused by <italic>C bifermentans</italic>. Infections due to <italic>C bifermentans</italic> are infrequently reported, potentially due to the relatively low virulence of this organism. Older publications tended to regard <italic>C bifermentans</italic> as nonpathogenic (<xref rid="b4-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">4</xref>,<xref rid="b6-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">6</xref>). However, in more recent reports, this organism has been documented as a cause of septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, soft tissue infection, abdominal infections, brain abscess, bacteremia and endocarditis (<xref rid="b7-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">7</xref>,<xref rid="b9-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">9</xref>–<xref rid="b18-idmm-26-105" ref-type="bibr">18</xref>). The present article describes the third reported case of empyema caused by <italic>C bifermentans,</italic> and serves to further define the spectrum of illness due to this uncommon organism.</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>REFERENCES</title><ref id="b1-idmm-26-105"><label>1.</label><element-citation publication-type="book"><person-group person-group-type="author"><collab>Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute</collab></person-group><source>Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Twenty-Second Informational Supplement. 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