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Park, Kim, Lee, Ha, Ryoo, Jeon, Kim, Kim, and Ryu: Acute Cellulitis Caused by Neisseria skkuensis
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Ann Clin Microbiol 2015;18(1):33-36.

Published online: 5 March 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2015.18.1.33

Acute Cellulitis Caused by Neisseria skkuensis

Sung-Gyun Park1, Kyoung-Bo Kim1, Wonmok Lee1, Jung-Sook Ha1, Namhee Ryoo1, Dong-Seok Jeon1, Jae-Ryong Kim1, Hyun-Ah Kim2, Seong-Yeol Ryu2

1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

2Department of Infectious Disease, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

Correspondence: Namhee Ryoo, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, 56, Dalseong-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-712, Korea. (Tel) 82-53-250-7220, (Fax) 82-53-250-7275, (E-mail) nhryoo@dsmc.or.kr

Received 9 December 20146 February 2015       Accepted 7 February 2015

Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

초록

A 73-year-old man visited our hospital because of pain with swelling and redness on the right foot dorsum. He was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and nodular hepatic cellular carcinoma. Lower extremity CT scan and MRI showed abscess formation in the right foot dorsum. Gram-negative cocci were recovered from the culture of drained pus at the site and identified as Neisseria skkuensis by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Here, we report the first case of cellulitis due to N. skkuensis and provide a literature review.

Keywords: Cellulitis, Neisseria, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Sequence analysis

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Fig. 1.
Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences of our N. skkuensis and 20 similar organisms. The bar represents 0.5% sequence divergence.
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Table 1.
Biochemical characteristics of the studied strain compared with reported strain and other species [1]
Species Oxidase Catalase Nitrate reduction Glucose assimilation Acid from
Ribose Glucose Fructose Maltose Sucrose Gluconate
This strain ＋ ＋ ＋ − ＋ ＋ ＋ ＋ ＋ ＋
Lee et al. [7] ＋ ＋ − ＋ ＋ ＋ ＋ − ＋ ＋
N. gonorrhoeae ＋ ＋ −   ND ＋ − − − ND
N. meningitidis ＋ ＋ − ND ND ＋ − ＋ − ND
O. urethralis ＋ ND − ND ND − ND − ND ND

Abbreviations: ＋, positive; −, negative; V, variable; ND, not determined.

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