Skin and soft tissue infection caused by Cysteiniphilum litorale in an immunocompetent patient: A case report
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lijiang Chen; Qing Wu; Chunquan Xu; Cui Zhou; Xiu-cai Zhang; Ping-hua Qu; Tieli Zhou; Yizhi Zhang
- Source
- Indian journal of medical microbiology. 39(4)
- Subject
- Microbiology (medical)
DNA, Bacterial
China
Microbiology
Young Adult
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Female patient
medicine
Humans
Abscess
Phylogeny
Base Composition
biology
Wound.exudate
Soft Tissue Infections
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Skin Diseases, Bacterial
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Southern china
Coccobacillus
Minor trauma
16s rrna gene sequencing
Soft tissue infection
Female
Gammaproteobacteria
- Language
- ISSN
- 1998-3646
Cysteiniphilum litorale is a Gram-negative coccobacillus first isolated from the seawater of Wailingding Island near the estuary of Pearl River in southern China. This organism was previously not considered to cause disease in animals or humans. We report a case of a 19-year-old female patient infected with abscess caused by C. litorale in the middle digit of her right hand after minor trauma during the handling of estuarine shrimps at home. C. litorale was cultured from the wound exudate of the patient and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Whether C. litorale may be transmitted to humans via other channels requires further exploration.