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
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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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author Tsai, Cheng-Yu
Su, Shou-hsin
Cheng, Yu-Hsin
Chou, Yu-lin
Tsai, Tai-Hsin
Lieu, Ann-Shung
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Su, Shou-hsin
Cheng, Yu-Hsin
Chou, Yu-lin
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Lieu, Ann-Shung
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description 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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spelling pubmed-28752262010-05-25 Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report Tsai, Cheng-Yu Su, Shou-hsin Cheng, Yu-Hsin Chou, Yu-lin Tsai, Tai-Hsin Lieu, Ann-Shung BMC Infect Dis 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 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. BioMed Central 2010-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2875226/ /pubmed/20423506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-102 Text en Copyright ©2010 Tsai et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Su, Shou-hsin
Cheng, Yu-Hsin
Chou, Yu-lin
Tsai, Tai-Hsin
Lieu, Ann-Shung
Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report
title Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report
title_full Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report
title_fullStr Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report
title_short Kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: A case report
title_sort kocuria varians infection associated with brain abscess: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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