Gordonia crocea sp. nov. Isolated from Wound Infection After Pacemaker Implantation: Case Report and Literature Review

Zhulan Yang; Zhen Zhang; Ming Chen; Zhiyong Liu

doi:10.2147/IDR.S368903

Gordonia crocea sp. nov. Isolated from Wound Infection After Pacemaker Implantation: Case Report and Literature Review

Infect Drug Resist. 2022 Jun 7:15:2915-2920. doi: 10.2147/IDR.S368903. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zhulan Yang¹, Zhen Zhang², Ming Chen¹, Zhiyong Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Clinical Laboratory, Chongqing General Hospital, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Gordonia is a recognized pathogen in patients with immunodeficiency and a normal immune response, which can cause bacteremia, endocarditis, peritonitis and pulmonary infection. We report a case of wound infection after pacemaker implantation caused by Gordonia crocea. Matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) was routinely used to identify the pathogen, and the results showed that the pathogen could not be accurately identified in the MALDI-TOF database at present. The 16S rRNA gene of the pathogen was further sequenced, and the result was Gordonia crocea. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of human infection caused by Gordonia crocea.

Keywords: Gordonia crocea; case report; pacemaker implantation; wound infection.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Medical Pre-research Project (LJ20191C060638), The general program of Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (Grant No. cstc2018jcyjAX0667).