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Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Research Letter

Rare Spiroplasma Bloodstream Infection in Patient after Surgery, China, 2022

Ningning Xiu1, Chao Yang1, Xiaowei Chen, Jianping Long, and Pinghua QuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Dongguan Kanghua Hospital, Dongguan, China (N. Xiu, J. Long); Second Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China (C. Yang, X. Chen, P. Qu); The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou (P. Qu)

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Etiologic examination of a postsurgery patient with a blood infection, China, 2022*

Sampling date Sample classification Detection technique Microorganism Report date
June 11 BALF Culture Candida tropicalis June 13
Hydrothorax
 Culture
 Negative
 June 17
June 12
 Blood culture (2 sets)
 Culture
 Negative
 June 18
June 15 Blood culture (2 sets) Culture Positive (3 bottles): Spiroplasma eriocheiris, identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing June 27
Urine Culture Negative June 18
BALF
 Culture
 Candida tropicalis
 June 17
June 19 BALF Culture Candida tropicalis June 22
Blood culture (2 sets) Culture Positive (all): Spiroplasma eriocheiris, identified by 16S rRNA sequencing and designated DGKH1 June 27
Blood mNGS† Spiroplasma eriocheiris (2,344, 11.36%) June 20
Human alphaherpesvirus 1 (1,942, 84.41%)
Aspergillus fumigatus (12, 0.00%)
Human gammaherpesvirus 4 (7, 0.27%)
Human betaherpesvirus 5 (3, 0.08%)
Human betaherpesvirus 6B (1, 0.04%)
BALF mNGS† Human alphaherpesvirus 1 (66,185, 99.49%) June 20
Spiroplasma eriocheiris (1,577, 0.26%)
Candida tropicalis (42, 0.00%)
Aspergillus fumigatus (7, 0.00%)

*BALF, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid; mNGS, metagenomic next-generation sequencing. †Numbers in parentheses indicate unique reads and relative abundance. One set included 2 bottles (1 aerobic and 1 anaerobic).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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