title: Bacteraemia caused by Sciscionella marina in a lymphoma patient: phenotypically mimicking Nocardia.
abstract: A 55-year-old female patient with malignant lymphoma after induction chemotherapy developed fever. Blood culture yielded an organism biochemically identified as representing Nocardia spp., but molecular identification (16S rRNA gene sequencing) later identified it as representing Sciscionella marina. This is the first report, to the best of our knowledge, of Sciscionella being isolated from a human sample.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh 160012, India.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Shivaprakash
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Sector 12, Chandigarh 160012, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chakrabarti
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shafiulla
authors.affiliation: Medical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Babu
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560029, India.
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Jayshree
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000193:Actinomycetales Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology*; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009615:Nocardia / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010641:Phenotype; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S