Implanted Port Catheter System Infection Caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius ST71-SCCmec type III

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.5579-20

Case Reports

. 2021 Jul 15;60(14):2337-2340.

doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.5579-20. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

Implanted Port Catheter System Infection Caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius ST71-SCCmec type III

Hiroki Kitagawa^{1

2

3}, Junzo Hisatsune^{1

4

5}, Hiroki Ohge^{1

2}, Shoko Kutsuno^{1

4

5}, Toshinori Hara^{1

5

6}, Kanako Masuda^{1

5}, Fatkhanuddin Aziz^{1

5

7}, Motoyuki Sugai^{1

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Project Research Center for Nosocomial Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University, Japan.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan.
³ Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
⁴ Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan.
⁵ Department of Antimicrobial Resistance, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
⁶ Section of Clinical Laboratory, Division of Clinical Support, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan.
⁷ Department of Bioresources Technology and Veterinary, Vocational College, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.

PMID: 33583884
PMCID: PMC8355384
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.5579-20

Case Reports

Implanted Port Catheter System Infection Caused by Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius ST71-SCCmec type III

Hiroki Kitagawa et al. Intern Med. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 15;60(14):2337-2340.

doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.5579-20. Epub 2021 Feb 15.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Project Research Center for Nosocomial Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University, Japan.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan.
³ Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
⁴ Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan.
⁵ Department of Antimicrobial Resistance, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
⁶ Section of Clinical Laboratory, Division of Clinical Support, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan.
⁷ Department of Bioresources Technology and Veterinary, Vocational College, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.

PMID: 33583884
PMCID: PMC8355384
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.5579-20

Abstract

Staphylococcus pseudintermedius is commonly associated with skin and soft tissue infections in dogs. However, infections caused by S. pseudintermedius are only rarely reported in humans, and this pathogen is frequently misidentified as S. aureus. We herein report a case of an implanted port catheter system infection caused by methicillin-resistant S. pseudintermedius (MRSP) in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient was also a dog owner. S. pseudintermedius was first identified using the Vitek2 system (BioMérieux). Whole-genome sequencing revealed that this MRSP was a sequence type 71-carrying staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type III (ST71-SCCmec III) isolate.

Keywords: Staphylococcus intermedius group; Staphylococcus pseudintermedius; bacteremia; bloodstream infection; human.

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[1] Devriese LA, Vancanneyt M, Baele M, et al. . Staphylococcus pseudintermedius sp. nov., a coagulase-positive species from animals. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55: 1569-1573, 2005. - PubMed

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[3] Sasaki T, Kikuchi K, Tanaka Y, Takahashi N, Kamata S, Hiramatsu K. Reclassification of phenotypically identified Staphylococcus intermedius strains. J Clin Microbiol 45: 2770-2778, 2007. - PMC - PubMed

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[5] Murray AK, Lee J, Bendall R, et al. . Staphylococcus cornubiensis sp. nov., a member of the Staphylococcus intermedius Group (SIG). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 68: 3404-3408, 2018. - PubMed

[6] Murray AK, Lee J, Bendall R, et al. . Staphylococcus cornubiensis sp. nov., a member of the Staphylococcus intermedius Group (SIG). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 68: 3404-3408, 2018. - PubMed

[7] Bannoehr J, Guardabassi L. Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in the dog: taxonomy, diagnostics, ecology, epidemiology and pathogenicity. Vet Dermatol 23: 253-266, 2012. - PubMed

[8] Bannoehr J, Guardabassi L. Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in the dog: taxonomy, diagnostics, ecology, epidemiology and pathogenicity. Vet Dermatol 23: 253-266, 2012. - PubMed

[9] Pires Dos Santos T, Damborg P, Moodley A, Guardabassi L. Systematic Review on global epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius: inference of population structure from multilocus sequence typing data. Front Microbiol 7: 1599, 2016. - PMC - PubMed

[10] Pires Dos Santos T, Damborg P, Moodley A, Guardabassi L. Systematic Review on global epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius: inference of population structure from multilocus sequence typing data. Front Microbiol 7: 1599, 2016. - PMC - PubMed

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