Pasteurella bettyae infection requiring finger amputation due to rapid deterioration and tissue damage

Pasteurella bettyae infection requiring finger amputation due to rapid deterioration and tissue damage

We report a case of infection of the middle finger of a 69-year-old man who visited our hospital. Pus was collected from the erythematous and swollen area of the nail cage of the left-hand middle finger and evaluated in our microbiology laboratory. Gram staining of the specimen revealed multinucleat...

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Main Authors: Daisuke Kitagawa, Anna Ochi, Toru Kurimoto, Takehito Kasamatsu, Naoyuki Shiraishi, Soma Suzuki, Yui Shintani, Madoka Furumori, Yuki Suzuki, Akiyo Nakano, Ryuichi Nakano, Hisakazu Yano, Koichi Maeda, Kyoko Nomi, Fumihiko Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:IDCases
Subjects:
Pasteurella bettyae
Finger infection
Matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing
Case report
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250923001154

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