Case Report

Severe Wound Infection with Photobacterium damselae ssp. damselae and Vibrio harveyi, following a Laceration Injury in Marine Environment: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

MALDI-TOF identification results obtained for P. damselae and V. harveyi. Note that the number of available spectra in the database is 4 for P. damselae (two for each subspecies) and 4 for V. harveyi. MALDI scores equal or higher than 2.000 allow for the designation of a species while below 2.000 but equal or above 1.700 allow for the designation of a genus. By default, 10 hits per identification are provided. Hits with scores in support of the final identification are given in bold. The installed database was V3.3.1.0_4110-4613 as of August 2012.

Matching spectra:Score

Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida PC846_1 EGS2.176
Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida ATCC 29690 EGS2.155
Photobacterium damselae ssp. damselae DSM 7482T HAM2.151
Photobacterium damselae ssp. damselae CDC 2227_81 EGS1.786
Enterobacter cloacae 20105_2 CHB1.427
Pseudomonas fluorescens DSM 50090T HAM1.358
Klebsiella pneumoniae ssp. ozaenae CCM 5792T CCM1.328
Kocuria rosea IMET 11363T HKJ1.289
Comamonas nitrativorans DSM 13191T HAM1.279
Leuconostoc mesenteroides ssp. cremoris DSM 20200 DSM1.275
Vibrio harveyi DSM 19623T DSM2.210
Vibrio alginolyticus CCM 7037 CCM1.935
Vibrio parahaemolyticus DSM 15477 DSM1.856
Vibrio harveyi LMG 19643T HAM1.850
Vibrio mytili DSM 19137T LGL1.840
Vibrio parahaemolyticus DSM 10027T DSM1.825
Vibrio parahaemolyticus DSM 15416 DSM1.818
Vibrio parahaemolyticus DSM 11058 DSM1.744
Vibrio alginolyticus DSM 2171T DSM1.732
Vibrio alginolyticus CCM 2578T CCM1.727