Fulminant Aeromonas caviae bacteremia with migratory myalgia: a case report of a CTX-M-3-producing multidrug-resistant strain
Lijing Guo, Ziyu Zhao, Kuo Li, Weichen Huang, Ningni Ma, Xinyi Jin, Baihui Gui, Qianhui Li, Chang Li, Chaogui Tang, Hongmei Zhao, Jingjing Huang, Sumin Gao, Ning Lin · 2026
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Lijing Guo leads a fourteen-author team telling in 2026 how a seventy-one-year-old man nearly died from a waterborne bacterium picked up through a minor injury in a paddy field. Aeromonas caviae flooded his bloodstream, causing septic shock and oddly migrating muscle pain. Standard first-line therapy at the referring hospital failed, and cultures revealed a multidrug-resistant strain.
Whole-genome sequencing confirmed the species beyond doubt and exposed its resistance arsenal, including an extended-spectrum enzyme gene, CTX-M-3, rarely seen in this species. The isolate still yielded to a carbapenem antibiotic called biapenem, and switching therapy cleared the infection quickly. The authors note that one carbapenem failed while another worked, possibly due to the patient's low albumin and kidney injury, and they call for surveillance linking environmental and human resistance.
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| CREATOR | Lijing Guo, Ziyu Zhao, Kuo Li, Weichen Huang, Ningni Ma, Xinyi Jin, Baihui Gui, Qianhui Li, Chang Li, Chaogui Tang, Hongmei Zhao, Jingjing Huang, Sumin Gao, Ning Lin |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49727 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |