First report of Myroides phaeus bacteraemia identified by Polymerase chain reaction and genetic sequencing

• Autores: Pérez-Lazo, G., Morales-Moreno, A., Soto-Febres, F., Jove-Químper, H., Morales-Castillo, L., Palomares-Reyes, C., Del Valle-Mendoza, J., Aguilar-Luis, M., Silva-Caso, W.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Seguro Social de Salud
• Repositorio: ESSALUD-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.essalud.gob.pe:20.500.12959/5175
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12959/5175; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00695
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Bacteremia; Myroides; Farmacorresistencia bacteriana; Variación Genética; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.01.02

We report the first case of Myroides phaeus isolated from blood, causing bacteremia in an immunocompromised patient using the automated MicroScan Walk Away 96 system, followed by bacterial identification by amplification-sequencing of the 16S rDNA. The sequences obtained were compared with the reference sequence of the BLAST ® platform - National Library of Medicine, USA, and the isolation was identified as Myroides phaeus strain with 99.67 % identity in Blast report. In the literature we did not find previous reported cases of infections by this bacterium, however its pathogenic role is still controversial; therefore, this isolation alerts us to carry out an exhaustive surveillance of other possible acquisition routes.