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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• de Dios, Angel
• Jacob, Seby
• Tayal, Amit
• Fisher, Mark A
• Dingle, Tanis C
• Hamula, Camille L

Titel

First Report of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica Isolation from a Patient with Cellulitis in the United States

Ist Teil von

• Journal of clinical microbiology, 2015-12, Vol.53 (12), p.3942-3944

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Society for Microbiology

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We report the first documented isolation of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica from a human in the United States. Initially misidentified as Acinetobacter lwoffii by Vitek-2, the isolate was subsequently identified as W. chitiniclastica by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. While the clinical significance of the isolate in this case is unclear, it highlights the superior performance of MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification.