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Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens intravascular catheter infection identified using 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing

Clinical infectious diseases: An official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2003) 36(5) e69-70
DOI: 10.1086/367654
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Abstract

Cultures of blood from a hemodialysis line repeatedly yielded a gram-positive rod. The organism was identified as Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens by 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing, and the patient was treated successfully by removal of the line.

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Sheridan, E. A. S., Warwick, S., Chan, A., Dall’Antonia, M., Koliou, M., & Sefton, A. (2003). Tsukamurella tyrosinosolvens intravascular catheter infection identified using 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 36(5), e69-70. https://doi.org/10.1086/367654

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