{"title":"Yokenella Regensburgei Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient.","authors":"Luxin Huang, Yeming Chen, Xue Wang","doi":"10.7754/Clin.Lab.2023.230916","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Yokenella regensburgei is a gram-negative, opportunistic pathogen that is ubiquitous in natural environments. It commonly affects immunocompromised patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The patient was a 71-year-old female with skin and soft tissue wound caused by trauma. The surgical debridement and abscess drainage were performed by surgeons. The specie of infected organism was identified by the D2Mini semi-automated system and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The result of bacterium culture showed gram-negative bacillus was moist, grey-white, semitransparent, and regular shape. Then the D2Mini semi-automated system and MALDI-TOF revealed that the colonies are Y. regensburgei. According to the result for drug sensitivity, antibiotic therapy was switched to cefoperazone/sulbac-tam and levofloxacin.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cooperation between clinical microbiology laboratories and surgeons is essential for the infected patient without typical symptoms. Agricultural activities and stab wounds may be related to Y. regensburgei infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":10384,"journal":{"name":"Clinical laboratory","volume":"70 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical laboratory","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7754/Clin.Lab.2023.230916","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: Yokenella regensburgei is a gram-negative, opportunistic pathogen that is ubiquitous in natural environments. It commonly affects immunocompromised patients.
Methods: The patient was a 71-year-old female with skin and soft tissue wound caused by trauma. The surgical debridement and abscess drainage were performed by surgeons. The specie of infected organism was identified by the D2Mini semi-automated system and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF).
Results: The result of bacterium culture showed gram-negative bacillus was moist, grey-white, semitransparent, and regular shape. Then the D2Mini semi-automated system and MALDI-TOF revealed that the colonies are Y. regensburgei. According to the result for drug sensitivity, antibiotic therapy was switched to cefoperazone/sulbac-tam and levofloxacin.
Conclusions: Cooperation between clinical microbiology laboratories and surgeons is essential for the infected patient without typical symptoms. Agricultural activities and stab wounds may be related to Y. regensburgei infection.
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Clinical Laboratory is an international fully peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of laboratory medicine and transfusion medicine. In addition to transfusion medicine topics Clinical Laboratory represents submissions concerning tissue transplantation and hematopoietic, cellular and gene therapies. The journal publishes original articles, review articles, posters, short reports, case studies and letters to the editor dealing with 1) the scientific background, implementation and diagnostic significance of laboratory methods employed in hospitals, blood banks and physicians'' offices and with 2) scientific, administrative and clinical aspects of transfusion medicine and 3) in addition to transfusion medicine topics Clinical Laboratory represents submissions concerning tissue transplantation and hematopoietic, cellular and gene therapies.