title: First Report of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica Isolation from a Patient with Cellulitis in the United States.
abstract: We report the first documented isolation of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica from a human in the United States. Initially misidentified as Acinetobacter lwoffii by Vitek-2, the isolate was subsequently identified as W. chitiniclastica by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. While the clinical significance of the isolate in this case is unclear, it highlights the superior performance of MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Dios
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Seby
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tayal
authors.affiliation: ARUP Laboratories and University of Utah Department of Pathology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Tanis C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Dingle
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA camille.hamula1@mssm.edu.
authors.forename: Camille L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Hamula
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020563:Gammaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S