Incidental post-partum isolation of Brucella melitensis in an asymptomatic woman

Vincent Deslandes; Kym Antonation; Peter Jessamine; Baldwin Toye; Curtis Cooper; Samir Patel

doi:10.3138/jammi.2018-0032

Incidental post-partum isolation of Brucella melitensis in an asymptomatic woman

J Assoc Med Microbiol Infect Dis Can. 2019 Mar 11;4(1):33-36. doi: 10.3138/jammi.2018-0032. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Authors

Vincent Deslandes^{1

2}, Kym Antonation³, Peter Jessamine^{4

5}, Baldwin Toye⁶, Curtis Cooper^{1

7}, Samir Patel^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ University of Ottawa, Department of Medical Microbiology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
² The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
³ National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
⁴ Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Division of Microbiology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Public Health Ontario Laboratories, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract
in English, French

A 25-year-old Somali-born female was admitted to the hospital in active labour. Following post-partum hemorrhage, Brucella melitensis grew from a blood culture and the placenta. Identification and relatedness were determined through reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), and whole genome sequencing. The patient and her child were completely asymptomatic at their initial assessment.

Une femme d’origine somalienne de 25 ans a été hospitalisée en travail actif. Après une hémorragie postpartum, le Brucella melitensis s’est développé dans une hémoculture et dans le placenta. La réaction de transcriptase inverse et d’amplification en chaîne de la polymérase (RT-PCR), le polymorphisme du nucléotide simple (SNP) et le séquençage du génome entier ont permis d’identifier la bactérie et d’établir sa parenté génétique. La patiente et son enfant étaient complètement asymptomatiques à l’évaluation initiale.

Keywords: Brucella melitensis; post-partum; pregnancy.

Publication types

Case Reports

Abstract in English, French

Publication types

Abstract
in English, French