Daptomycin, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus hominis Catheter-Related Bacteraemia in a Hemodialysis Patient

Manuel Macía-Heras¹, Javier Donate-Correa¹, Julia Alcoba-Flórez², Gerardo Pulido-Reyes¹, Ernesto Martín-Núñez¹, Joel Martín-Padrón¹, Sebastián Méndez-Álvarez^1*

¹Research Unit, University Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.
²Microbiology Service, University Hospital Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.

DOI: 10.4236/ojmm.2013.31008                

Abstract

We report a case of a haemodialysis patient that presented a catheter-related bacteraemia caused by a Coagulase negative Staphylococcus. With the utilization of molecular biology techniques the bacterial isolate recovered from catheter was surprisingly identified as S. hominis by sequencing of the 16S ribosomal gene. The S. hominis isolate, which is not often associated with infections in dialysis patients, was resistant to methicillin, being mecA positive, and to daptomycin. The patient was successfully treated with vancomycin together with the catheter retirement.

Keywords

Bacteraemia; Catheter; Daptomycin; Methicillin; Staphylococcus hominis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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