Granulicatella adiacens, an unusual causative agent in chronic dacryocystitis

BACKGROUND: Granulicatella adiacens, a recent taxonomic addition, is a commensal organism of the oral, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts and is rarely encountered in the orbit and eye. FINDINGS: We present a 46-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic dacryocystitis who underwent an external dacr...

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Autores principales: Ku, Cristy A, Forcina, Blake, LaSala, Paul Rocco, Nguyen, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25897344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12348-015-0043-2
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Granulicatella adiacens, a recent taxonomic addition, is a commensal organism of the oral, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts and is rarely encountered in the orbit and eye. FINDINGS: We present a 46-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic dacryocystitis who underwent an external dacryocystorhinostomy and was found to have G. adiacens. CONCLUSIONS: This is an unusual causative organism isolated in the nasolacrimal system and, to our knowledge, the first reported case of chronic dacryocystitis associated with G. adiacens.

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