Myroides and Neurology: An Overview

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2020; 41(03): 439-440
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_219_19

Letter to Editor

Jamir Pitton Rissardo

Department of Medicine, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grand do Sul, Brazil

,

Ana Letícia Fornari Caprara

Department of Medicine, Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grand do Sul, Brazil

References
1 Bhat VG, Vira HJ, Shetty P, Gupta S. Myroides odoratus central nervous infection in a postneurosurgery patient. Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2019; 40: 291-3
2 Vancanneyt M, Segers P, Torck U, Hoste B, Bernardet JF, Vandamme P. et al. Reclassification of Flavobacterium odoratum (Stutzer 1929) strains to a new genus, Myroides, as Myroides odoratus comb. nov. and Myroides odoratimimus sp. nov.. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1996; 46: 926-32
3 Benedetti P, Rassu M, Pavan G, Sefton A, Pellizzer G. Septic shock, pneumonia, and soft tissue infection due to Myroides odoratimimus: Report of a case and review of Myroides infections. Infection 2011; 39: 161-5
4 Macfarlane DE, Baum-Thureen P, Crandon I. Flavobacterium odoratum ventriculitis treated with intraventricular cefotaxime. J Infect 1985; 11: 233-8
5 Hu S, Cao L, Wu Y, Zhou Y, Jiang T, Wang L, Sarin YK. et al. Comparative genomic analysis of Myroides odoratimimus isolates. Microbiologyopen 2019; 8: e00634