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Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens intravascular catheter infection identified using 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing
Elizabeth A S Sheridan1, Simon Warwick, Anthony Chan
1Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom. drlizsheridan@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract:
Cultures of blood from a hemodialysis line repeatedly yielded a gram-positive rod. The organism was identified as Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens by 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing, and the patient was treated successfully by removal of the line.