Two Cases of Bacteremia Due to Roseomonas mucosa
Annals of Laboratory Medicine
; : 367-370, 2016.
Article
in English
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-48332
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WPRO
ABSTRACT
Roseomonas is a genus of pink-pigmented nonfermentative bacilli. These slow-growing, gram-negative cocobacilli form pink-colored colonies on sheep blood agar. They differ from other pink-pigmented nonfermenters, including Methylobacterium, in morphology, biochemical characteristics, and DNA sequence. Roseomonas strains are rarely isolated in clinical laboratories; therefore, we report two cases in order to improve our ability to identify these pathogens. We isolated two strains of Roseomonas mucosa from the venous blood cultures of two patients, an 84-yr-old woman with common bile duct obstruction and a 17-yr-old male with acute myeloid leukemia who had an indwelling central-venous catheter for chemotherapy. The isolated strains were confirmed as R. mucosa by 16S rRNA sequencing.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Annals of Laboratory Medicine
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article