Kannambath Rachana, Sistla Sujatha, Jayakar Sunil, Pillai Vivekanandan M
Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry-605006, India.
Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry-60500, India.
Access Microbiol. 2021 Jul 7;3(7):000238. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.000238. eCollection 2021.
is a recently described coryneform bacteria. It is only rarely identified from clinical specimens and its pathogenic significance has not been well studied. Here we report the isolation of the species from the throat swab of a patient with suspected diphtheria. The morphology on direct microscopy and culture also closely resembled , which almost led to misidentification. The prompt clinical and microbiological response suggests a probable pathogenic role. This is the first report of the isolation of this species from an oropharyngeal sample.
是一种最近被描述的棒状杆菌。它仅很少从临床标本中被鉴定出来,其致病意义尚未得到充分研究。在此,我们报告从一名疑似白喉患者的咽拭子中分离出该菌种。直接显微镜检查和培养时的形态也与[未提及的类似菌种]非常相似,这几乎导致了错误鉴定。迅速的临床和微生物学反应提示其可能具有致病作用。这是首次关于从口咽样本中分离出该菌种的报告。