%0 Case Reports
%T Bacteremia Caused by Moraxella Osloensis: a Fatal Case of an Immunocompromised Patient and Literature Review.
%A Lee MY
%A Kim MH
%A Lee WI
%A Kang SY
%J Clin Lab
%V 67
%N 1
%D Jan 2021 1
%M 33491414
%F 1.053
%R 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2020.200459
%X <B>BACKGROUND: </B>Moraxella osloensis rarely causes infection in humans, and most of the reported cases are not fatal. It is often difficult to identify M. osloensis using conventional biochemical methods.<BR><B>METHODS: </B>Here, we report a bacteremia case caused by M. osloensis in a patient with advanced lung cancer who initially presented symptoms of fever.<BR><B>RESULTS: </B>Blood culture revealed growth of a gram-negative bacterium, which was identified as M. osloensis through 16S rRNA gene sequencing and MALDI-TOF analyses. The patient could not recover from sepsis with empirical treatment.<BR><B>CONCLUSIONS: </B>As M. osloensis can cause serious infections in immunocompromised patients, its prompt identification is important.