Wound infection caused by , a zoonotic pathogen: a case report.

The isolation of from a 63-year-old female presenting to the emergency department following a cat bite injury to her right hand is described in this report. , also known as Centers for Disease Control (CDC) group EF-4b, is considered to be a zoonotic pathogen, and is usually associated with dog or cat bites. Despite the potential of this organism to cause serious soft tissue infections, it can be overlooked in routine clinical laboratories due to its slow growth characteristics and when the history of animal bite is not provided to the laboratory.

Isolation of clinically significant microorganisms from prosthetic joint tissue using BacT/ALERT paediatric blood culture bottles compared with solid culture media and enrichment broth.

The diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections and isolation of causative microorganisms has been found to be challenging in microbiology laboratories due to low sensitivity of microbiological culture. The aim of this study was to compare the use of conventional culture methods with the use of both enrichment broth and BacT/ALERT paediatric blood culture bottles, for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infections. A total of 121 specimens from 44 patients were processed using three methods of microbiological culture: solid media, enrichment broth and paediatric bottles.