First case of Campylobacter rectus and Solobacterium moorei mixed bacteraemia successfully identified by MALDI TOF-MS

F G Genderini; D Martiny; F Ponthieux; M A Argudín; M Gomez Galdon; A Zaarour; C Garcia; A Libois; M Gérard; N Dauby

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100587

First case of Campylobacter rectus and Solobacterium moorei mixed bacteraemia successfully identified by MALDI TOF-MS

New Microbes New Infect. 2019 Jul 3:31:100587. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2019.100587. eCollection 2019 Sep.

Authors

F G Genderini^{1

2}, D Martiny^{3

4

5}, F Ponthieux⁴, M A Argudín⁴, M Gomez Galdon⁶, A Zaarour⁷, C Garcia⁸, A Libois¹, M Gérard¹, N Dauby¹

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
² Infectious Diseases, Department of Mental and Physical Health and Preventive Medicine, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
³ National Reference Centre for Campylobacter, CHU Saint-Pierre, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, Laboratoire Hospitalier Universitaire de Bruxelles-Universitair Laboratorium Brussel, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Pathology, Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatopancreatology, and Digestive Oncology, CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium.
⁸ Nuclear Medicine Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium.

Abstract

Campylobacter rectus and Solobacterium moorei are anaerobic Gram-negative and Gram-positive rods, respectively, that are occasionally members of the human oral flora. Bacteraemia has rarely been reported. We present the first case of mixed C. rectus-S. moorei bacteraemia in an individual with diabetes and human immunodeficiency virus infection. Both bacteria were successfully identified by MALDI-TOF MS.

Keywords: 16S rRNA gene sequencing; Campylobacter rectus; MALDI TOF-MS; Solobacterium moorei; bacteraemia; herpes simplex virus type 1; oesophagitis.

Publication types

Case Reports