First clinical isolation report of Shewanella algae from the stools of a patient with acute enteritis in Spain

We report a case of acute enteritis caused by Shewanella algae in a cirrhotic patient. Biochemical identification systems revealed to be insufficient to identify the Shewanella isolate at the species level, thus requiring 16S rRNA and gyrB partial gene sequencing. Even if co-infection by Clostridium...

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Autores principales: Fernández-Fernández, Eleazar, Martín-Rodríguez, Alberto J., Hernández, Mariano, Navarro-Marí, José María, Römling, Ute, Gutiérrez-Fernández, José
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29616510
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Sumario:We report a case of acute enteritis caused by Shewanella algae in a cirrhotic patient. Biochemical identification systems revealed to be insufficient to identify the Shewanella isolate at the species level, thus requiring 16S rRNA and gyrB partial gene sequencing. Even if co-infection by Clostridium difficile could not be ruled out, this is, to our knowledge, the first report of acute enteritis caused by Shewanella algae in Europe.

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