Identification of Dietzia spp. from Cardiac Tissue by 16S rRNA PCR in a Patient with Culture-Negative Device-Associated Endocarditis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

A PubMed search performed in June 2016 using the terms “Dietzia”, “Dietzia and infection” revealed the following published case reports identifying Dietzia spp. from human clinical specimens. This excludes the 24 isolates which retrospectively reclassified organisms initially identified as Rhodococcus equi.

Organism (date of publication)	Source
Dietzia maris (1999) [3]	Blood culture drawn from in-dwelling catheter and from catheter tip culture
Dietzia maris (2001) [4]	Biopsy from site of prosthetic hip joint infection, by 16S rRNA sequencing
Dietzia maris (2006) [5]	Culture of specimen from aortic wall and pericardial liquid in a patient with aortitis
Dietzia maris (2007) [6]	Skin of 8 healthy human control subjects, by 16S rRNA sequencing
Dietzia cinnamea (2006) [7]	Perianal swab culture of bone marrow transplant recipient
Dietzia papillomatosis (2008) [8]	Skin culture from a patient with confluent and reticulated papillomatosis
Dietzia spp. (2012) [9]	Pacemaker pocket infection, by 16S rRNA sequencing
Dietzia cinnamea (2012) [10]	Culture of wound from dog bite
Dietzia aurantiaca (2012) [11]	CSF culture
Dietzia papillomatosis (2013) [12]	Blood culture in a 2-year-old with fever, rash, and recent VP shunt placement for syringomyelia