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ANAEROBE
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 15-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.04.015
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Tissierella praeacuta; Joint infection; Blood stream infection; MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry; 16S rRNA
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Herein we report two cases of infections caused by Tissierella praeacuta and a review of the literature. The first case was a septic pseudarthrosis of the left femur after multiple fractures. Two per-operative samples were positive with T. praeacuta. The patient was successfully treated by piperacillin tazobactam and metronidazole. The second case was a bacteremia in a patient suffering from pyonephrosis and a hepatic abscess. The treatment was meropenem. No relapses were observed in both cases. Identification of the strains using MALDI-TOF coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) (Beckman coulter, France) was inconclusive in the two cases. Identification by 16S rRNA sequencing was then performed. This bacterium was susceptible to beta-lactams, chloramphenicol, rifampicine and metronidazole. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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