Baba Hisashi, Nada Toshi, Ohkusu Kiyofumi, Ezaki Takayuki, Hasegawa Yoshinori, Paterson David L
Department of Infectious Disease, Nagoya University Hospital, Showa-ku, Japan.
J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Aug;47(8):2667-9. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00294-09. Epub 2009 Jun 3.
We describe the first case of bloodstream infection caused by Rhodococcus erythropolis. The identification was performed using 16S rRNA sequencing. This case illustrates that non-equi Rhodococcus infections may be underdiagnosed due to difficulties in identification in the routine clinical microbiology laboratory.
我们描述了首例由红斑红球菌引起的血流感染病例。采用16S rRNA测序进行鉴定。该病例表明,由于常规临床微生物实验室在鉴定方面存在困难,非均等红球菌感染可能未得到充分诊断。