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We report two rare cases of bacteremia caused by <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic> in which the intestinal tract was the portal of entry. In addition, we summarize findings on <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Case 1: A 51-year-old man presented to the emergency department with the chief complaints of fever and right lower abdominal pain. He was admitted to the hospital with ascending colonic diverticulitis and received empirical antibacterial therapy with piperacillin\/tazobactam. Blood culture revealed <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic>. The patient was discharged after 2 weeks of antimicrobial therapy. Case 2: A 95-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a chief complaint of fever. Owing to an elevated inflammatory response and pyuria, the patient was diagnosed with pyelonephritis and treated with ceftriaxone. <jats:italic>Klebsiella pneumoniae<\/jats:italic> was detected in her urine culture, while <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic> was detected in her blood culture. The patient was then treated with ampicillin\/sulbactam for 14 days. The fecal occult blood test result was positive, suggesting a colonic mucosal lesion, such as a malignant tumor, may have been the portal of entry for <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic> bacteremia. Previous literature reviews indicate that <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic> bacteremia often results from liver or renal abscesses, intestinal lesions, among others, serving as the portal of entry. Although no specific underlying disease has been reported, it is more common in the older population. We encountered two cases of <jats:italic>D. desulfuricans<\/jats:italic> bacteremia and combined them with 15 cases from previous studies to explore the characteristics of the disease. The proportion of patients aged <jats:inline-formula><jats:tex-math>$$\\:\\ge\\:$$<\/jats:tex-math><\/jats:inline-formula>60 years was 73.7%; overall, 73.7% had gastrointestinal complications, and 63.2% had abdominal symptoms at the time of presentation.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We encountered two rare cases of <jats:italic>D. desulfurican<\/jats:italic> bacteremia. This type of bacteremia is more common in elderly people over 60 years of age and is often associated with hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal diseases.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12879-024-09623-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,24]],"date-time":"2024-07-24T07:06:22Z","timestamp":1721804782000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Bacteremia caused by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans with the intestinal tract as the portal of entry: two case reports and a literature review"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Kotone","family":"Yamaizumi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Moe","family":"Kyotani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tsuneaki","family":"Kenzaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"9623_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2752","DOI":"10.1128\/JCM.41.6.2752-2754.2003","volume":"41","author":"EJ Goldstein","year":"2003","unstructured":"Goldstein EJ, Citron DM, Peraino VA, Cross SA. 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