TY - JOUR
T1 - Catheter-associated Nocardia higoensis bacteremia in a child with acute lymphocytic leukemia
AU - Watson, Michael E.
AU - Estabrook, Michele M.
AU - Burnham, Carey Ann D.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - A 23-month-old child with leukemia who was receiving chemotherapy developed fevers. Serial blood cultures from a central venous catheter and a peripheral venous site grew an organism identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phenotypic analysis as Nocardia higoensis, an opportunistic organism isolated once previously from a pulmonary infection in Japan.
AB - A 23-month-old child with leukemia who was receiving chemotherapy developed fevers. Serial blood cultures from a central venous catheter and a peripheral venous site grew an organism identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and phenotypic analysis as Nocardia higoensis, an opportunistic organism isolated once previously from a pulmonary infection in Japan.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650890419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1128/JCM.01816-10
DO - 10.1128/JCM.01816-10
M3 - Article
C2 - 21084509
AN - SCOPUS:78650890419
SN - 0095-1137
VL - 49
SP - 469
EP - 471
JO - Journal of clinical microbiology
JF - Journal of clinical microbiology
IS - 1
ER -