Abstract:
Delftia tsuruhatensis is a non-glucose fermenting, oxidase positive, motile, gram-negative bacillus first isolated from
activated sludge collected from a domestic wastewater treatment plant in Japan. To the best of our knowledge only
one case of infection with Delftia tsuruhatensis exists in the medical literature. This is the second case report of human
infection having Delftia tsuruhatensis as a causative agent.