Globicatella bacteraemia identified by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Globicatella are streptococcus-like organisms that have been rarely isolated from clinical specimens. Their epidemiology and clinical significance remain largely unknown.

Aims

To describe two cases of Globicatella bacteraemia identified by 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing.

Methods

Two unidentified streptococcus-like bacteria isolated from blood cultures of patients were subject to 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

Results

Two cases of Globicatella bacteraemia were identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. In the first case, a gram positive coccus was isolated from the blood culture of an 80 year old woman with diabetes mellitus and nosocomial sepsis, who died the day after developing the bacteraemia. The bacterium was unidentified by conventional pheno

SUBMITTER: Lau SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1860353 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature