Stefano Castellana, Vittoriana De Laurentiis, Angelica Bianco, Laura Del Sambro, Massimo Grassi, Francesco De Leonardis, Anna Maria Derobertis, Carmen De Carlo, Eleonora Sparapano, Adriana Mosca, Stefania Stolfa, Luigi Ronga, Luigi Santacroce, Maria Chironna, Michela Parisi, Loredana Capozzi, Antonio Parisi
This study describes two cases of bacteraemia sustained by a new putative Pannonibacter species isolated at the U.O.C. of Microbiology and Virology of the Policlinico of Bari (Bari, Italy) from the blood cultures of two patients admitted to the Paediatric Oncohaematology Unit. Pannonibacter spp. is an environmental Gram-negative bacterium not commonly associated with nosocomial infections. Species identification was performed using Sanger sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and Whole-Genome Sequencing (WGS) for both strains...
April 15, 2024: Microorganisms