Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Pasteurella in a penicillin allergic patient: challenges in diagnosis and treatment.
Pasteurella multocida is a rare cause of infective endocarditis with only a few cases described. This report involves a 38-year-old penicillin-allergic patient in an immunocompromised state with several co-morbidities. Two molecular microbiological techniques, 16S rRNA sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry were used to confirm the species identification as P. multocida. Previous reports in the literature are also reviewed.
Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Giovanni
G
Satta
Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Rebecca Louise
RL
Gorton
Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Hala
H
Kandil
16S-rRNA; MALDI-TOF.; Pasteurella multocida; endocarditis