Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report

BACKGROUND: Kocuria species are gram-positive, non-pathogenic commensals. However, in immunocompromised patients such as transplant recipients, cancer patients, or patients with chronic medical conditions, they can cause opportunistic infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the first case of descen...

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Autores principales: Lee, Mi Kyung, Choi, Soon Ho, Ryu, Dae Woong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24112281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-475
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description BACKGROUND: Kocuria species are gram-positive, non-pathogenic commensals. However, in immunocompromised patients such as transplant recipients, cancer patients, or patients with chronic medical conditions, they can cause opportunistic infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the first case of descending necrotizing mediastinitis in a 58-year-old, relatively healthy woman caused by Kocuria rosea. CONCLUSION: Descending necrotizing mediastinitis due to Kocuria rosea can be successfully treated with prompt surgical drainage combined with antimicrobial therapy.
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spelling pubmed-38525622013-12-06 Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report Lee, Mi Kyung Choi, Soon Ho Ryu, Dae Woong BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Kocuria species are gram-positive, non-pathogenic commensals. However, in immunocompromised patients such as transplant recipients, cancer patients, or patients with chronic medical conditions, they can cause opportunistic infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the first case of descending necrotizing mediastinitis in a 58-year-old, relatively healthy woman caused by Kocuria rosea. CONCLUSION: Descending necrotizing mediastinitis due to Kocuria rosea can be successfully treated with prompt surgical drainage combined with antimicrobial therapy. BioMed Central 2013-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3852562/ /pubmed/24112281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-475 Text en Copyright © 2013 Lee 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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Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report
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title_full Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report
title_fullStr Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report
title_short Descending necrotizing Mediastinitis caused by Kocuria rosea: a case report
title_sort descending necrotizing mediastinitis caused by kocuria rosea: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24112281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-475
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