First case of human bacteraemia byCatabacter hongkongensisin Scandinavia.
Catabacter hongkongensiswas isolated and cultured from human blood for the first time in Scandinavia. The patient, an 83-year-old man from Dalarna, Sweden, recovered without antibiotic treatment, although a high mortality rate associated withC. hongkongensisinfection had been reported from China, Canada and France. The genome of the strain ABBA15k was sequenced, assembled and analysed. In contrast to the type strain of the species HKU16T, no antibiotic resistance was observed in Scandinavian strain ABBA15k. The strain was deposited as CCUG 68271, and the draft genome sequence is available from the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and GenBank under the accession number LLYX00000000.
Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Kaden
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Falu Lasarett, Falun, Sweden.
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Thelander
Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden.
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Engstrand
Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Herrmann
Antibiotic resistance; Catabacter hongkongensis; bacteraemia; infection control; whole genome sequencing