Catheter-associated Nocardia higoensis bacteremia in a child with acute lymphocytic leukemia

J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Jan;49(1):469-71. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01816-10. Epub 2010 Nov 17.

Abstract

A 23-month-old child with leukemia who was receiving chemotherapy developed fevers. Serial blood cultures from a central venous catheter and a peripheral venous site grew an organism identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phenotypic analysis as Nocardia higoensis, an opportunistic organism isolated once previously from a pulmonary infection in Japan.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Bacteremia / diagnosis*
  • Bacteremia / microbiology*
  • Catheter-Related Infections / diagnosis*
  • Catheter-Related Infections / microbiology*
  • DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
  • DNA, Bacterial / genetics
  • DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
  • DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Nocardia / isolation & purification*
  • Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / complications*
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • DNA, Bacterial
  • DNA, Ribosomal
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S