Dialysis-related peritonitis caused by Gordonia sputi in patient with chronic renal failure: case report and review of the literature

Gordonia species had been reported to be a rare cause of human infection. This may be because they are easily misidentified as Rhodococcus, Nocardia, Arthrobacter or other Actinomycetes by routine biochemical tests. Here, we report a case of dialysis-related peritonitis caused by Gordonia sputi in a patient with chronic renal failure. The organism was not identified originally using an automatic identification instrument (VITEK Compact). The strain was finally identified as G. sputi by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene.
Source: Reviews in Medical Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Tags: Case Reports Source Type: research