Fatal sepsis caused by an unusual Klebsiella species that was misidentified by an automated identification system.
Masafumi Seki, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Yukihiro Akeda, Tadashi Yoshii, Shinichi Miyaguchi, Hidenori Inohara, Toshihiro Horii, Kazunori Oishi, Tetsuya Iida, Kazunori Tomono
Division of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University, Suita City, Osaka, Japan. seki@hp-infect.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
Journal of medical microbiology 2013 MayThis is a description of fatal sepsis caused by infection with Klebsiella variicola, which is an isolate genetically related to Klebsiella pneumoniae. The patient's condition was incorrectly diagnosed as common sepsis caused by K. pneumoniae, which was identified using an automated identification system, but next-generation sequencing and the non-fermentation of adonitol finally identified the cause of sepsis as K. variicola.
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Masafumi Seki, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Shota Nakamura, Yukihiro Akeda, Tadashi Yoshii, Shinichi Miyaguchi, Hidenori Inohara, Toshihiro Horii, Kazunori Oishi, Tetsuya Iida, Kazunori Tomono. Fatal sepsis caused by an unusual Klebsiella species that was misidentified by an automated identification system. Journal of medical microbiology. 2013 May;62(Pt 5):801-3
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