Arthrobacter Species associated with infection - A. creatinolyticus, A. cumminsii, A. woluwensis Reported infections - UTI, bacteraemia, Whipple's disease Reported susceptibilities and treatments - vancomycin, penicillin Notes - clinical literature includes reports of Arthrobacter not identified to species - Whipple's disease has been associated also with Tropheryma whippelii References - Bodaghi et al. (1998). Whipple's syndrome (uveitis, B27-negative spondylarthropathy, meningitis, and lymphadenopathy) associated with Arthrobacter sp. infection. Ophthalmology. 105, 1891-1896. - Hou et al. (1998). Description of Arthrobacter creatinolyticus sp. nov., isolated from human urine. Int. J. syst. Bacteriol. 48, 423-429. - Hsu et al. 1998. Septicaemia due to Arthrobacter species in a neutropenic patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Clin. infect. Dis. 27, 1334-1335.
