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Brucella vertebral osteomyelitis misidentified as an Ochrobactrum anthropi infection
2018, IDCasesCitation Excerpt :Contrarily to Brucella, Ochrobactrum spp rarely causes disease in humans; within the various species, O. anthropi seems to be the most clinically relevant. Due to being phenotypically and genetically closely related [4] several cases of misidentification have been reported [5–10]. Ochrobactrum is considered an opportunistic and nosocomial pathogen and mostly associated with central venous catheters infections, especially in dialysis patients [11,12] that lead to bacteremia and may cause localized infections such as endocarditis and osteomyelitis mainly in critically ill or immunocompromised patients [13,14].
An ultrasensitive electrochemical genosensor for Brucella based on palladium nanoparticles
2016, Analytical BiochemistryA case-study of implementation of improved strategies for prevention of laboratory-acquired brucellosis
2015, Safety and Health at WorkCitation Excerpt :Therefore, patient exposure was presumed to be zoonotic. Secondary exposures to, and ultimately disease from, Brucella spp. in a laboratory setting have been published [3–9], although no exposures were specific to B. suis biovar 4. In 2012, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had begun revising recommendations for monitoring such exposures, including a change to the schedule for serial serologies, and published updated prevention strategies to prevent LAB, including: (1) risk classification; (2) antimicrobial postexposure prophylaxis (PEP); (3) serologic monitoring; and (4) symptom surveillance [10].
Challenges in Clinical Microbiology Testing
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2008, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious DiseaseCitation Excerpt :The API 20E (bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) incorrectly identified the Brucella as Moraxella phenylpyruvica, and the organism was not handled with appropriate safety precautions. Three months later, 1 technologist in Nairobi developed brucellosis, and 5 months later, a 2nd technologist working with the same organism in the reference laboratory in Oxford, UK, became ill (Batchelor et al., 1992). Sniffing cultures was again cited as an assumed risk factor.
Surgical wound infection associated with Psychrobacter phenylpyruvicus-like organism
2007, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious DiseaseCitation Excerpt :However, infrequently encountered organisms, like P. phenylpyruvicus, are often not included in the databases of commercial systems, such is the system we used, ID 32 GN. On the other side, misidentification of Brucella spp. as M. phenylpyruvica by API 20NE system, which includes this organism in the database, has frequently been reported (Batchelor et al., 1992, Jensenius et al., 2000). Phenotypically, our isolate matched the description of the genus Psychrobacter, being Gram-negative, coccobacilli, aerobic, oxidase and catalase positive, nonmotile, and psychrotolerant (colonies visible by naked eye appeared after the 3 days of incubation on Columbia agar supplemented with 5% horse blood in a refrigerator at 4 °C).