Catheter-related bloodstream infection caused by Tsukamurella ocularis: A case report
| Autor: | Takeshi Inagaki, Honami Ando, Maki Nagashima, Akira Kawashima, Tetsuya Suzuki, Satoshi Kutsuna, Akira Shimomura, Norio Ohmagari, Takato Nakamoto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Tsukamurella Catheterization Central Venous Catheters business.industry Cancer Bacteremia Antimicrobial medicine.disease Microbiology Housekeeping gene Actinobacteria Peritoneal Neoplasm Catheter Infectious Diseases Bloodstream infection Catheter-Related Infections RNA Ribosomal 16S Medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Female business Aged |
| Zdroj: | Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy. 28(3) |
| ISSN: | 1437-7780 |
| Popis: | Tsukamurella spp. causes mainly bacteremia and central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections. To the best of our knowledge, there is no documented evidence that Tsukamurella ocularis causes catheter-related bloodstream infections like other species of Tsukamurella. We present a novel case of T. ocularis bacteremia in a 69-year-old woman with malignant cancer, wherein the patient was successfully treated with a peripherally inserted central venous catheter. We administered combination antimicrobial therapy to the patient, which was terminated only after confirming the absence of infection. We identified T. ocularis by sequencing three housekeeping genes that could not be identified using conventional mass spectrometry and 16S rRNA gene analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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