{"title":"<i>Rhizobium radiobacter</i> Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis - A Case Report and Literature Analysis.","authors":"Sunish Shah, Kavitha Ramakrishnan, Raagini Jawa","doi":"10.1177/00185787241312869","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We describe a case of a 67-year-old man with bioprosthetic aortic valve endocarditis secondary to <i>Rhizobium radiobacter</i>, a rare Gram-negative plant pathogen. The initial source was assumed to be due to soil exposure. The patient was successfully managed with ceftriaxone following aortic valve replacement. Upon review of the literature, failure to recover <i>R. radiobacter</i> from blood cultures occurred in 57% (4/7) of reported endocarditis cases and 86% (6/7) were managed with antimicrobial monotherapy. Notably, all the published case reports to date of <i>R. radiobacter</i> endocarditis have reported survival following treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":13002,"journal":{"name":"Hospital Pharmacy","volume":" ","pages":"00185787241312869"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11748410/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital Pharmacy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00185787241312869","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We describe a case of a 67-year-old man with bioprosthetic aortic valve endocarditis secondary to Rhizobium radiobacter, a rare Gram-negative plant pathogen. The initial source was assumed to be due to soil exposure. The patient was successfully managed with ceftriaxone following aortic valve replacement. Upon review of the literature, failure to recover R. radiobacter from blood cultures occurred in 57% (4/7) of reported endocarditis cases and 86% (6/7) were managed with antimicrobial monotherapy. Notably, all the published case reports to date of R. radiobacter endocarditis have reported survival following treatment.
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Hospital Pharmacy is a monthly peer-reviewed journal that is read by pharmacists and other providers practicing in the inpatient and outpatient setting within hospitals, long-term care facilities, home care, and other health-system settings The Hospital Pharmacy Assistant Editor, Michael R. Cohen, RPh, MS, DSc, FASHP, is author of a Medication Error Report Analysis and founder of The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), a nonprofit organization that provides education about adverse drug events and their prevention.
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