Washington Michael A, Barnhill Jason, Griffin Jaclyn M
Tripler Army Medical Center; Honolulu, HI.
Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2015 Nov;74(11):375-7.
Providencia rettgeri (P. rettgeri) is a ubiquitous organism that is infrequently associated with human disease. Here we report the isolation of this organism from a polymicrobial wound infection resulting from ruptured tophi on a 54-year-old male patient from Guam. We describe the identification and confirmation of this organism, and propose metabolic synergy as a possible mechanism of pathogenesis. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of a wound infection colonized by P. rettgeri from Guam, and the first report to speculate upon the role of bacterial synergy in P. rettgeri pathogenesis.
雷氏普罗威登斯菌(P. rettgeri)是一种广泛存在的微生物,很少与人类疾病相关。在此,我们报告从一名来自关岛的54岁男性患者因痛风石破裂导致的多微生物伤口感染中分离出这种微生物。我们描述了该微生物的鉴定和确认,并提出代谢协同作用作为一种可能的发病机制。据我们所知,这是来自关岛的雷氏普罗威登斯菌定植于伤口感染的首次发表报告,也是首次推测细菌协同作用在雷氏普罗威登斯菌发病机制中的作用的报告。