Departments of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
Microbiology, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
Br J Neurosurg. 2023 Aug;37(4):653-655. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2018.1540767. Epub 2018 Nov 19.
is a recently described species and genus of bacterium in the Corynebacterineae suborder which is Gram-stain positive, partially acid-fast and anaerobic. Very few cases of human infection due to this organism are described and here we seek to add to the limited medical literature. We report the case of a 2-year-old girl who presented with an infected spinal dermoid cyst secondary to which required surgical drainage and a long course of antibiotics. We encountered diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties because this is a fastidious organism which was difficult to culture and ultimately required molecular detection and identification. To the best of our knowledge, this is only the seventh reported case of causing human infection worldwide and the first in the UK. This is the first reported case of infection in a child and the second reported case of this organism causing spinal infection.
是棒状杆菌亚科中最近描述的一种细菌种属，革兰氏染色阳性，部分抗酸和厌氧。由于这种生物体引起的人类感染病例很少有描述，在这里我们希望增加有限的医学文献。我们报告了一例 2 岁女孩的病例，她因感染性脊髓皮样囊肿就诊，该囊肿继发于 ，需要手术引流和长期使用抗生素。我们遇到了诊断和治疗的困难，因为这是一种难以培养的挑剔生物体，最终需要分子检测和鉴定。据我们所知，这是全球第七例也是英国首例报道的 引起的人类感染。这是首例儿童感染的病例，也是该生物体引起的脊髓感染的第二例报告病例。
