Hattori Takuya, Minami Masaaki, Narita Kotaro, Nakata Tomohiko, Itomi Seiko, Kubota Kinya, Oya Teruaki, Nishiyama Hideki, Kato Hideki, Yuasa Norihiro
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daiichi Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Department of Bacteriology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.
J Infect Chemother. 2016 Jun;22(6):421-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jiac.2015.12.014. Epub 2016 Feb 1.
We report an immunocompromised child who experienced two episodes of bacteremia due to Streptococcus pyogenes. Random amplification of polymorphic DNA profiles, emm genotypes, superantigen profiles, antimicrobial susceptibility, and resistance-related genes were investigated, and the results showed different profiles between the two isolates. This is the first report describing recurrent bacteremia caused by different strains of S. pyogenes.
