KEGG   DISEASE: Tsukamurella infection
Entry
H01050                      Disease                                
Name
Tsukamurella infection
Description
Tsukamurella species are aerobic gram-positive rods from the order Actinomycetales. They have been uncommonly reported as a cause of different human infections, including peritonitis, conjunctivitis, meningitis, tenosynovitis, prosthetic joint infections, cutaneous infections, tuberculosis-like respiratory infection, and catheter-related bloodstream infections.
Category
Bacterial infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
 01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Mycobacterial diseases
   1B2Z  Mycobacterial diseases, unspecified
    H01050  Tsukamurella infection
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
 Bacterial infections
  Infections caused by actinobacteria
   H01050  Tsukamurella infection
Pathogen
Tsukamurella paurometabola [GN:tpr]
Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens [GN:tsm]
Tsukamurella pulmonis
Tsukamurella inchonensis
Tsukamurella strandjordae
Comment
Tsukamurella spp. are resistant to cefoxitin, ampicillin, and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid.
Other DBs
ICD-11: 1B2Z
Reference
PMID:18810513
  Authors
Bouza E, Perez-Parra A, Rosal M, Martin-Rabadan P, Rodriguez-Creixems M, Marin M
  Title
Tsukamurella: a cause of catheter-related bloodstream infections.
  Journal
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 28:203-10 (2009)
DOI:10.1007/s10096-008-0607-2
Reference
PMID:12228839
  Authors
Schwartz MA, Tabet SR, Collier AC, Wallis CK, Carlson LC, Nguyen TT, Kattar MM, Coyle MB
  Title
Central venous catheter-related bacteremia due to Tsukamurella species in the immunocompromised host: a case series and review of the literature.
  Journal
Clin Infect Dis 35:e72-7 (2002)
DOI:10.1086/342561
LinkDB

» Japanese version

DBGET integrated database retrieval system