Gordonia crocea sp. nov. Isolated from Wound Infection After Pacemaker Implantation: Case Report and Literature Review

Abstract

Gordonia is a recognized pathogen in patients with immunodeficiency and a normal immune response, which can cause bacteremia, endocarditis, peritonitis and pulmonary infection. We report a case of wound infection after pacemaker implantation caused by Gordonia crocea. Matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) was routinely used to identify the pathogen, and the results showed that the pathogen could not be accurately identified in the MALDI-TOF database at present. The 16S rRNA gene of the pathogen was further sequenced, and the result was Gordonia crocea. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of human infection caused by Gordonia crocea.

Keywords:

• wound infection
• pacemaker implantation
• Gordonia crocea
• case report

Patient Consent and Ethics Statement

Patient provided informed consent for the case details and images to be published. No ethics committee approval was required for this study as the data had been analyzed in a retrospective manner.

Author Contributions

All authors made a significant contribution to the work reported, whether that is in the conception, study design, execution, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, or in all these areas; took part in drafting, revising or critically reviewing the article; gave final approval of the version to be published; have agreed on the journal to which the article has been submitted; and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Disclosure

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest in this work.

Additional information

Funding

This work was funded by Medical Pre-research Project (LJ20191C060638), The general program of Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (Grant No. cstc2018jcyjAX0667).