Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report

BACKGROUND: Kocuria, established by Stackebrandt et al., previously was classified into Micrococcus. Only two species, K. rosea and K. kristinae are reported to be associated as pathogenic and found with catheter-related bacteremia and acute cholecystitis. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report the fir...

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Autores principales: Tsai, Cheng-Yu, Su, Shou-hsin, Cheng, Yu-Hsin, Chou, Yu-lin, Tsai, Tai-Hsin, Lieu, Ann-Shung
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20423506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-102
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Kocuria, established by Stackebrandt et al., previously was classified into Micrococcus. Only two species, K. rosea and K. kristinae are reported to be associated as pathogenic and found with catheter-related bacteremia and acute cholecystitis. CASE PRESENTATION: We herein report the first case of brain abscess caused by Kocuria varians, a gram-positive microorganism, in a 52-year-old man. Hematogenous spread is the probable pathogenesis. CONCLUSIONS: This report presents a case of Kocuria varians brain abscess successfully treated with surgical excision combined with antimicrobial therapy. In addition, Vitek 2 system has been used to identify and differentiate between coagulase-negative staphylococcus.

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