Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia

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Background

Stenotrophomonas (Xanthomonas) maltophilia is an aerobic gram-negative bacillus that is found in various aquatic environments. Although an uncommon pathogen in humans, S maltophilia infection in humans, especially nosocomial, has been increasingly recognized.

S maltophilia is an organism of low virulence and frequently colonizes fluids used in the hospital setting (eg, irrigation solutions, intravenous fluids) and patient secretions (eg, respiratory secretions, urine, wound exudates). S maltophilia usually must bypass normal host defenses to cause human infection. For example, if an irrigation solution becomes colonized with this organism, irrigating an open wound can cause colonization or infection of the wound. S maltophilia is usually incapable of causing disease in healthy hosts without the assistance of invasive medical devices that bypass normal host defenses.[1]

Risk factors associated with S maltophilia infection have been defined and may include underlying malignancy, immunosuppressant therapy, cystic fibrosis, HIV neutropenia, mechanical ventilation, central venous catheter, recent surgery, trauma, prolonged hospitalization, ICU admission, and exposure to broad-spectrum antibiotics.[2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Pathophysiology

S maltophilia has few pathogenic mechanisms and, for this reason, predominantly results in colonization rather than infection. If infection does occur, invasive medical devices are usually the vehicles through which the organism bypasses normal host defenses. Otherwise, the pathophysiology of this nonfermentative aerobic gram-negative bacillus does not differ from other nonfermentative aerobic organisms.

Epidemiology

Frequency

United States

S maltophilia is a noninvasive organism that has low virulence. It frequently colonizes body fluids but rarely causes infection (eg, intravenous line infections).

International

S maltophilia frequently colonizes the respiratory tract in patients with cystic fibrosis.[7, 8, 9, 10, 11]

The 2016 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry Annual Data Report shows a 13% prevalence of S maltophilia; this figure changed little over the preceding decade.[12]

Mortality/Morbidity

Mortality and morbidity relate to the inoculum of S maltophilia that is able to bypass normal host defense mechanisms.

If an intravenous infusion contains large numbers of S maltophilia, then direct injection into the bloodstream may result in the signs and symptoms associated with gram-negative bacteremia.

Similarly, in the urinary tract, if urological irrigation fluids that contain large numbers of S maltophilia are used during an invasive urological procedure, eg, cystoscopy, then gram-negative bacteremia may occur with its attendant mortality and morbidity, which depend on host factors.

S maltophilia bacteremia is associated with high mortality rates and should be considered in patients with recent use of broad-spectrum antibiotics or recent isolation from any other site. The 30-day all-cause mortality rate associated with S maltophilia bacteremia (33.3%) is reported to be more than that of bacteremia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (21.5%, P  =  0.080) and Acinetobacter species (17.3%, P  =  0.041). The independent factor associated with 30-day mortality was the SOFA score.[13]

Prognosis

The course S maltophilia infection depends on the site of the infection, severity, response to antibiotics, and existence of other comorbidities. S maltophilia infections may be life-threatening, especially in immunocompromised patients.[14]

History

Because S maltophilia infections are extremely uncommon, no specific patient history suggests its presence other than contact with other colonized individuals.

Obtaining a history of the use of irrigant solutions that could potentially contain S maltophilia is important in an epidemiological setting rather than in a clinical setting.

Patients often have a history of indwelling catheters, use of immunosuppressant therapy or broad-spectrum antibiotics, or cystic fibrosis.

Physical

Signs and symptoms of S maltophilia infections are related to the organ system involved and are indistinguishable from infections with other pathogens.

Causes

S maltophilia is a nonfermentative aerobic gram-negative bacillus formerly classified in the genus Pseudomonas. Unlike Pseudomonas aeruginosa, S maltophilia is an organism of low virulence with limited ability to cause infection in humans.

S maltophilia is a water organism, and it survives and multiplies in aqueous environments, particularly respiratory secretions, urine, intravenous fluids, and irrigant solutions.

S maltophilia may persist in an aquatic environment for extended periods.

Sources of S maltophilia colonization include the following:

Laboratory Studies

Culture of the organism from body fluids and proper identification from the microbiology laboratory confirms the presence of S maltophilia. Usually, the presence of S maltophilia represents colonization. A potential pathogenic role must be evaluated by an infectious disease specialist. The mere recovery of a potential pathogen from any body fluid does not indicate a pathogenic role for the organism.

Histologic Findings

The histology of S maltophilia in the rare situations when it causes infection is indistinguishable from the histology of infections caused by other aerobic gram-negative bacilli.

Medical Care

Colonization of body fluids in hospitalized patients should be minimized if possible. Foley catheters should be used only as long as necessary and should be avoided if at all possible in immunocompromised hosts predisposed to urinary tract infections, eg, patients with diabetes, SLE, or multiple myeloma.

Colonization of respiratory secretions in intubated patients in ICUs is the rule and is difficult to prevent.

Patient-to-patient spread of organisms may be minimized or prevented by effective infection-control measures.

Consultations

Consultation with an infectious disease specialist is essential for differentiating colonization from infection in patients with S maltophilia isolated from various body fluids.

Prevention

Because S maltophilia is a common nosocomial colonizer in patients and medical fluids, the recovery of S maltophilia should be considered nonpathogenic unless proven otherwise.

If S maltophilia is recovered from several patients in the same area, sections of an ICU or ward can become the focus of further spread within the hospital setting.

Effective infection control measures can minimize or limit the spread of this and other organisms in the ICU.

Appropriate isolation procedures, rather than antimicrobial therapy, should be used to control the spread of S maltophilia.

Medical personnel, including medical students, housekeeping staff, attending physicians, nursing personnel, and respiratory therapists, are potential carriers of the organism from patient to patient.

Medication Summary

Because S maltophilia is predominantly a colonizer, antimicrobial treatment may be unnecessary and may be potentially harmful. Thus, determination of whether the organism is truly the cause of an infection is necessary to determine the need for antibiotic therapy.

As a general principle, colonization should not be treated with antimicrobial therapy.

S maltophilia, as a non–aeruginosa pseudomonad, is usually resistant to aminoglycosides, antipseudomonal penicillins, and antipseudomonal third-generation cephalosporins. Tigecycline may potentially be helpful, but clinical investigation is needed.[17, 18]

S maltophilia is consistently susceptible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ).[18, 19] If TMP-SMZ cannot be used, the organism is usually sensitive to doxycycline, minocycline, respiratory quinolones, or colistin/polymyxin.[20, 21]

Sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (Bactrim, Bactrim DS, Septra, Septra DS)

Clinical Context:  Inhibits bacterial growth by inhibiting synthesis of dihydrofolic acid. Antibacterial activity includes common urinary tract pathogens, except P aeruginosa.

Cefepime (Maxipime)

Clinical Context:  Fourth-generation cephalosporin with good gram-negative coverage, similar to ceftazidime, but better gram-positive coverage.

Minocycline (Dynacin, Minocin)

Clinical Context:  Treats infections caused by susceptible gram-negative and gram-positive organisms, in addition to infections caused by susceptible Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and Mycoplasma.

Tigecycline (Tygacil)

Clinical Context:  A glycylcycline antibiotic that is structurally similar to tetracycline antibiotics. Inhibits bacterial protein translation by binding to 30S ribosomal subunit, and blocks entry of amino-acyl tRNA molecules in ribosome A site. Indicated for complicated skin and skin structure infections caused by E coli, E faecalis (vancomycin-susceptible isolates only), S aureus (methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates), S agalactiae, S anginosus group (includes S anginosus, S intermedius, and S constellatus), S pyogenes, and B fragilis.

Class Summary

Therapy should be selective to avoid covering multiple isolates from a body site in the context of the clinical setting.

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Author

Syed Faisal Mahmood, MBBS, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Program Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Coauthor(s)

Sara Ahmed, MBBS, FCPS, Fellow in Adult Infectious Diseases, Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan

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Specialty Editors

Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape Drug Reference

Disclosure: Received salary from Medscape for employment. for: Medscape.

Chief Editor

Michael Stuart Bronze, MD, David Ross Boyd Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Stewart G Wolf Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center; Master of the American College of Physicians; Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London

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Additional Contributors

Burke A Cunha, MD, Professor of Medicine, State University of New York School of Medicine at Stony Brook; Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital

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Charles S Levy, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Disease, George Washington University School of Medicine

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Infection Predisposing Factor
Catheter-associated bacteriuriaIndwelling urinary catheters
Intravenous line infectionsCentral intravenous catheters
UrosepsisUrinary tract instrumentation
Primary bacteremiaArterial monitoring devices
PseudobacteremiaContamination of blood during collection/processing of blood cultures