TY - JOUR AU - Bonnet, Isabelle AU - Bozzi, Baptiste AU - Fourniols, Eric AU - Mitrovic, Stéphane AU - Soulier-Escrihuela, Olivia AU - Brossier, Florence AU - Sougakoff, Wladimir AU - Robert, Jérôme AU - Jauréguiberry, Stéphane AU - Aubry, Alexandra T1 - Erwinia billingiae as Unusual Cause of Septic Arthritis, France, 2017 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 8 SP - 1587 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In 2017 in France, we treated a patient with knee septic arthritis caused by Erwinia billingiae after trauma involving a palm tree. This rare pathogen could only be identified through 16S rRNA gene sequencing. For bacterial infections after injuries with plants, 16S rRNA gene sequencing might be required for species identification. KW - knee septic arthritis KW - Erwinia billingiae KW - Enterobacteriaceae KW - plant KW - 16S rRNA gene KW - injury KW - bacteria KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - MALDI-TOF KW - literature review KW - case study KW - France KW - palm tree KW - 16S rRNA KW - MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry DO - 10.3201/eid2508.181073 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/8/18-1073_article ER - End of Reference