A Case of Paenibacillus pasadenensis Bacteremia in a Patient with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after Microsurgical Clipping.

Author: Hee Jung YOON ¹ ; Hyung Woo YIM ; Kwan Soo KO
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1. Department of Infectious Disease, Eulji Medical Center, Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.
Publication Type:Case Report
Keywords: Paenibacillus pasadensis; Respiratory distress syndrome, Adult; RNA, Ribosomal; 16S
MeSH: Bacteremia*; Genes, rRNA; Humans; Intracranial Aneurysm; Male; Middle Aged; Paenibacillus*; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult*; RNA, Ribosomal; Virulence
From:Infection and Chemotherapy 2015;47(1):64-67
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:English
Abstract: We report the first case of bacteremia by a novel Paenibacillus species, Paenibacillus pasadenensis, from a 55-year-old male patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome, following a microsurgical clipping procedure of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm. The bacterium was identified using 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis, which was applied because current conventional methods employed in the clinical microbiology laboratory proved unsuccessful. Since this bacterium was first identified in 2006 and has never been reported elsewhere, we believe this report can provide practitioners with useful insight on the pathogenicity of this species.