First case of human bacteraemia by Catabacter hongkongensis in Scandinavia

Autor: R. Kaden, M. Thelander, L. Engstrand, B. Herrmann
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: New Microbes and New Infections, Vol 15, Iss C, Pp 6-8 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2052-2975
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.09.015
Popis: Catabacter hongkongensis was isolated and cultured from human blood for the first time in Scandinavia. The patient, an 83-year-old man from Dalarna, Sweden, recovered without antibiotic treatment, although a high mortality rate associated with C. hongkongensis infection had been reported from China, Canada and France. The genome of the strain ABBA15k was sequenced, assembled and analysed. In contrast to the type strain of the species HKU16T, no antibiotic resistance was observed in Scandinavian strain ABBA15k. The strain was deposited as CCUG 68271, and the draft genome sequence is available from the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank under the accession number LLYX00000000.
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