Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature

Kocuria species are unusual human pathogens isolated most commonly from immunocompromised hosts, such as transplant recipients and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, or from patients with chronic medical conditions. A case of catheter-related bacteremia with pulmonary septic emboli in a pregna...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Dunn, Ryan, Bares, Sara, David, Michael Z
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-10-31
_version_ 1782213045263532032
author Dunn, Ryan
Bares, Sara
David, Michael Z
author_facet Dunn, Ryan
Bares, Sara
David, Michael Z
author_sort Dunn, Ryan
collection PubMed
description Kocuria species are unusual human pathogens isolated most commonly from immunocompromised hosts, such as transplant recipients and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, or from patients with chronic medical conditions. A case of catheter-related bacteremia with pulmonary septic emboli in a pregnant adult female without chronic medical conditions is described. A review of other reported Kocuria infections is provided.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3184040
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2011
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-31840402011-10-01 Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature Dunn, Ryan Bares, Sara David, Michael Z Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob Case Report Kocuria species are unusual human pathogens isolated most commonly from immunocompromised hosts, such as transplant recipients and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, or from patients with chronic medical conditions. A case of catheter-related bacteremia with pulmonary septic emboli in a pregnant adult female without chronic medical conditions is described. A review of other reported Kocuria infections is provided. BioMed Central 2011-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3184040/ /pubmed/21864336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-10-31 Text en Copyright ©2011 Dunn 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Dunn, Ryan
Bares, Sara
David, Michael Z
Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature
title Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature
title_full Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature
title_short Central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by Kocuria kristinae: Case report and review of the literature
title_sort central venous catheter-related bacteremia caused by kocuria kristinae: case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864336
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-10-31
work_keys_str_mv AT dunnryan centralvenouscatheterrelatedbacteremiacausedbykocuriakristinaecasereportandreviewoftheliterature
AT baressara centralvenouscatheterrelatedbacteremiacausedbykocuriakristinaecasereportandreviewoftheliterature
AT davidmichaelz centralvenouscatheterrelatedbacteremiacausedbykocuriakristinaecasereportandreviewoftheliterature

Ejemplares similares