Bacteraemia caused by Sciscionella marina in a lymphoma patient: phenotypically mimicking Nocardia

J Med Microbiol. 2013 Jun;62(Pt 6):929-931. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.053561-0. Epub 2013 Mar 21.

Abstract

A 55-year-old female patient with malignant lymphoma after induction chemotherapy developed fever. Blood culture yielded an organism biochemically identified as representing Nocardia spp., but molecular identification (16S rRNA gene sequencing) later identified it as representing Sciscionella marina. This is the first report, to the best of our knowledge, of Sciscionella being isolated from a human sample.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Actinomycetales / classification*
  • Actinomycetales / genetics
  • Actinomycetales / isolation & purification*
  • Actinomycetales Infections / diagnosis
  • Actinomycetales Infections / microbiology*
  • Bacteremia / microbiology*
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphoma / complications*
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nocardia / classification
  • Nocardia / genetics
  • Nocardia / isolation & purification
  • Phenotype
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Associated data

  • GENBANK/UNKNOWN