Chromobacterium haemolyticum Pneumonia Associated with Near-Drowning and River Water, Japan

• DOI: 10.3201/eid2609.190670
• Publication Date: 2020-07-23T15:05:05Z
• Authors: Hajime Kanamori; Tetsuji Aoyagi; Makoto Kuroda; Tsuyoshi Sekizuka; Makoto Katsumi; Kenichiro Ishikawa; Tatsuhiko Hosaka; Hiroaki Baba; Kengo Oshima; Koichi Tokuda; Masatsugu Hasegawa; Yu Kawazoe; Shigeki Kushimoto; Mitsuo Kaku
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; Chromobacterium; R; Dispatch; Water; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Pneumonia; 3. Good health; respiratory infections; 03 medical and health sciences; Chromobacterium haemolyticum; Near Drowning; Japan; Rivers; whole-genome sequencing; pneumonia; Medicine; Humans; bacteria; environment

We report a severe case of Chromobacterium haemolyticum pneumonia associated with near-drowning and detail the investigation of the pathogen and river water. Our genomic and environmental investigation demonstrated that river water in a temperate region can be a source of C. haemolyticum causing human infections.