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Importance of Suspicion for the Identification of Mycoplasma in Wound Culture: A Case Report

Case report

Annals of Clinical Microbiology (Ann Clin Microbiol) 2010 September, Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 121-124.

https://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2010.13.3.121

Importance of Suspicion for the Identification of Mycoplasma in Wound Culture: A Case Report

Sang Mee Hwang, In Seon Yoon, Sei-Ick Joo, Jongyoun Yi, Eui-Chong Kim

Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Genital mycoplasmas are rare in extraintestinal specimens, but can cause disseminated infections in immunocompromised patients and wound infections after surgery or injury. We report two cases of Myoplasma hominis wound infections after lung lobectomy and kidney transplantation, and a case of M. salivarium wound infection after aortic graft replacement. Mycoplasmas grew in aerobic and anaerobic cultures as tiny colonies but were not observed by gram- or acid fast stain and were confirmed by MYCOFAST EvolutioN 2 kit or 16S rRNA sequencing. These cases indicated that mycoplasmas were probably underestimated in wound infections because they were not in suspicion. We suggest that Mycoplasma should be suspected when microorganisms are not readily observable in Gram stains but can be cultured. (Korean J Clin Microbiol 2010;13: 121-124)

Keywords

Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma salivarium, Wound infection