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The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology |
Biblioraphy Information
| ArticleTitle |
A Case of Sepsis Caused by Moraxella osloensis |
| Language |
J |
| AuthorList |
Tomokazu Kuchibiro1), Yoshifumi Sakata2), Kiyofumi Ohkusu3) |
| Affiliation |
1) Department of Clinical Laboratory, Naga Municipal Hospital
2) Department of Surgery, Naga Municipal Hospital
3) Department of Microbiology, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine |
| Publication |
J.J.C.M.: 21 (1), 45-50, 2011 |
| Received |
November 7, 2010 |
| Accepted |
January 26, 2011 |
| Abstract |
Moraxella osloensis is a part of the normal flora of the human respiratory tract, rarely caused infection. We report the first case of sepsis caused by M. osloensis in Japan. The patient is a 78-year-old man, who was clinically diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He was hospitalized with ileus in the surgery section in July, 2009. He became adult respiratory distress syndrome during treatment, and antimicrobial treatment was given. Gram-variable coccobacilli and large bacilli were detected on smear of a blood culture. The biochemical profile of the isolate produced by a Vitek2 compact identification system disclosed Moraxella species. The organism is difficult to identify because of presence of several other species with similar phenotypic characteristics. However, the isolate was identified as M. osloensis by means of nucleotide sequencing analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA gene. |
| Keywords |
Moraxella osloensis, 16S rRNA |
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