Facklamia Species and Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Facklamia sp are Gram-positive cocci that are often mistaken for viridans streptococci, but they rarely cause invasive disease. In this report, we describe a case of mixed Facklamia sp and Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in an immunocompetent host with sinusitis. This case demonstrates that Fack...

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Autores principales: Parvataneni, Kesav C., Iyer, Sugantha, Khatib, Riad, Saravolatz, Louis D.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26380331
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv029
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author Parvataneni, Kesav C.
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description Facklamia sp are Gram-positive cocci that are often mistaken for viridans streptococci, but they rarely cause invasive disease. In this report, we describe a case of mixed Facklamia sp and Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in an immunocompetent host with sinusitis. This case demonstrates that Facklamia sp may be part of normal human flora but can be associated with invasive disease.
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spelling pubmed-45670832015-09-14 Facklamia Species and Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Parvataneni, Kesav C. Iyer, Sugantha Khatib, Riad Saravolatz, Louis D. Open Forum Infect Dis Review Articles Facklamia sp are Gram-positive cocci that are often mistaken for viridans streptococci, but they rarely cause invasive disease. In this report, we describe a case of mixed Facklamia sp and Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in an immunocompetent host with sinusitis. This case demonstrates that Facklamia sp may be part of normal human flora but can be associated with invasive disease. Oxford University Press 2015-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4567083/ /pubmed/26380331 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv029 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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