Weissfeld Alice S, Halliday Rhonda J, Simmons Dawn E, Trevino Ernest A, Vance Paula H, O'Hara Caroline M, Sowers Evangeline G, Kern Rebecca, Koy R Dudley, Hodde Kathy, Bing M, Lo Carson, Gerrard John, Vohra Renu, Harper Jacqueline
Microbiology Specialists Incorporated, 8911 Interchange Drive, Houston, TX 77054.
J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Aug;43(8):4152-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.8.4152-4155.2005.
A 54-year-old ranch hand presented to the emergency room with an alleged spider bite and multiple abscesses. Both wound and blood cultures grew Photorhabdus asymbiotica, an enteric gram-negative rod that was initially misidentified by the hospital's rapid identification system. Clinical laboratories should be aware of the limitations of their rapid identification systems and always use them as an adjunct to analysis of morphological and phenotypic traits.
一名54岁的牧场工人因疑似蜘蛛咬伤和多处脓肿被送往急诊室。伤口和血液培养均培养出共生光杆菌,这是一种肠道革兰氏阴性杆菌,最初被医院的快速鉴定系统错误识别。临床实验室应意识到其快速鉴定系统的局限性,并始终将其作为形态学和表型特征分析的辅助手段。