Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica. Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Cátedra Microbiología Clínica, Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín", CABA, Argentina.
Unidad de Genómica y Bioinformática, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, CENUR Salto, Universidad de La República, Uruguay.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2024 Oct;110(2):116476. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2024.116476. Epub 2024 Jul 31.
We present a case of a 34-year-old patient with abdominal sepsis caused by an infrequent species: Chimaeribacter arupi. Genomic analysis confirmed the identification which is difficult to achieve by other methods so far. To our knowledge, this represents the first case of infection by this species reported in Argentina.
我们报告了一例由罕见物种奇美拉杆菌引起的 34 岁患者的腹部脓毒症病例。基因组分析证实了这一鉴定,这是迄今为止其他方法难以实现的。据我们所知,这是在阿根廷报告的首例该物种感染病例。