A Case of Infective Endocarditis Due to Herbaspirillum Huttiense in a Pediatric Oncology Patient

We are writing this short commentary on the case of infective endocarditis after resistant fever and recurrent reproduction of Herbaspirillum Huttiense in blood cultures in an oncology patient we were following in the pediatric oncology clinic of Ankara City Hospital [1].

Herbaspirillum Huttiense is a gram-negative, oxidase-positive opportunistic pathogen that belongs to the betapreoteobacteria family. It has been isolated from food such as rice, sugarcane, drinking water distribution system [2]. Through developing microbiology laboratories, it has started to be seen with an increasing frequency, especially in immunocompromised patients.