Nosocomial infection due to Enterococcus cecorum identified by MALDI-TOF MS and Vitek 2 from a blood culture of a septic patient

Philipp Warnke; Thomas Köller; Paul Stoll; Andreas Podbielski

doi:10.1556/1886.2015.00008

Nosocomial infection due to Enterococcus cecorum identified by MALDI-TOF MS and Vitek 2 from a blood culture of a septic patient

Eur J Microbiol Immunol (Bp). 2015 Jun 18;5(2):177-9. doi: 10.1556/1886.2015.00008. eCollection 2015 Jun.

Authors

Philipp Warnke¹, Thomas Köller¹, Paul Stoll², Andreas Podbielski¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, Rostock University Hospital , Rostock, Germany.
² Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Rostock University Hospital , Rostock, Germany.

Abstract

We report the case of a nosocomial infection due to Enterococcus cecorum isolated from a blood culture of a 75-year-old septic male patient. Matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) and Vitek 2 succeeded in identification of the isolate.

Keywords: Enterococcus cecorum; MALDI-TOF; Vitek 2; mass spectrometry; nosocomial infection.

Publication types

Case Reports