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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
Published on: July 11, 2016
Rare Lelliottia nimipressuralis from a wound infection case report using whole genome sequencing-based bacterial
Hosoon Choi1, Munok Hwang1, Piyali Chatterjee1
1Department of Research, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, TX, USA.
Abstract:
Identification of clinical bacterial isolates is an essential first step to provide guidelines for treatment of pathogenic bacterial infection. Infection occurred in a laceration along the medial aspect of left upper arm of a 71-year-old female. Conventional biochemical testing and MALDI-TOF MS identification failed to correctly identify a bacterial isolate. Using whole genome sequencing, the isolate was identified as Lelliottia nimipressuralis. WGS can overcome the limitations of conventional phenotypic and molecular identification methods and successfully identified a rare pathogen. This case is the first report of a human infection of L. nimipressuralis.
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