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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kimura K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249398 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
IDCases 20181113
<i>Roseomonas</i> species is rarely found to be pathogenic to humans and there are few clinical cases that have been described in the literature. We report a case of <i>Roseomonas mucosa</i> bacteremia that involved a 9-year-old Japanese boy who was in a condition of febrile neutropenia caused by chemotherapy for cerebellar medulloblastoma. Conventional phenotyping failed to identify the organism; however, genetic analysis using 16S rDNA sequencing confirmed the pathogen to be <i>R. mucosa</i>. ...[more]