Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bacteraemia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

1 Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Correspondence I.-C. Sam jicsam{at}um.edu.my Received July 10, 2008 Accepted September 21, 2008 A 17-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia had fever and diarrhoea during a febrile neutropenic episode. A spiral-shaped, Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium was isolated from blood, and confirmed as Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens by 16S rRNA sequencing. The patient responded to imipenem. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA sequence of the A. succiniciproducens described is EU863654.