Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Research Letter
Rare Spiroplasma Bloodstream Infection in Patient after Surgery, China, 2022
Table
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).
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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