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The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology |
Biblioraphy Information
| ArticleTitle |
A Case of Gordonia sputi Sepsis in a Patient with a Central Venous Catheter |
| Language |
J |
| AuthorList |
Kyoko Enokizono1), Hinako Murakami1), Kiyofumi Ohkusu2), Ayumi Hikosaka1), Shigeru Fukuzawa1), Chikako Maehara1), Kumiko Yasui1), Shigeo Yumoto1), Morihiro Iwata1), Kazuhiro Tateda1,3), Naohiro Washizawa4), Takayuki Ezaki2), Keizo Yamaguchi1,3) |
| Affiliation |
1) Laboratory of Microbiology in Ohmori Hospital, Toho Medical Center
2) Department of Microbiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine
3) Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine
4) Nutritional Therapy Center in Ohmori Hospital, Toho Medical Center |
| Publication |
J.J.C.M.: 20 (3), 188-194, 2010 |
| Received |
November 10, 2008 |
| Accepted |
June 30, 2010 |
| Abstract |
We have experienced a case of Gordonia sputi sepsis in home parenteral nutrition (HPN) patient. He was 50 years-old and managed as a short bowel syndrome after resection of small intestine. He admitted to the hospital because of fever unresponsive to antibiotic. Blood culture examination demonstrated several isolation of Gram-positive rod. Although this organism was suggested to be Gordonia, Mycobacterium or Rhodococcus spp., a definitive identification result was not obtained. The patient gradually responded to administration of penicillin-G and panipenem without removal of subcutaneous portal device. Later, 16S rRNA analysis demonstrated this organism as G. sputi. This case alerts G. sputi in line sepsis of immunocompromised patients if undefined Gram-posivite rod was isolated as a causative organism. |
| Keywords |
Gordonia sputi, 16S rRNA |
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