Ann Clin Microbiol.  2015 Mar;18(1):33-36. 10.5145/ACM.2015.18.1.33.

Acute Cellulitis Caused by Neisseria skkuensis

• Park SG
• Kim KB
• Lee W
• Ha JS
• Ryoo N
• Jeon DS
• Kim JR
• Kim HA
• Ryu SY

• KMID: 1800319
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5145/ACM.2015.18.1.33

Abstract

A 73-year-old man visited our hospital because of pain with swelling and redness on the right foot dorsum. He was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and nodular hepatic cellular carcinoma. Lower extremity CT scan and MRI showed abscess formation in the right foot dorsum. Gram-negative cocci were recovered from the culture of drained pus at the site and identified as Neisseria skkuensis by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Here, we report the first case of cellulitis due to N. skkuensis and provide a literature review.

Keyword

Cellulitis; Neisseria; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; Sequence analysis

MeSH Terms

Abscess
Aged
Cellulitis*
Foot
Genes, rRNA
Humans
Liver Cirrhosis
Lower Extremity
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neisseria*
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Sequence Analysis
Suppuration
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Figure

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  Fig. 1. Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences of our N. skkuensis and 20 similar organisms. The bar represents 0.5% sequence divergence.

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