Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient

Small colony variants (SCV) are slow-growing subpopulations of bacteria usually associated with auxotrophism, causing persistent or recurrent infections. Enterococcus faecalis SCV have been seldom described, and only one case of Enterococcus faecium SCV has been reported, associated with sepsis in a...

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Autores principales: Egido, S. Hernández, Ruiz, M. Siller, Inés Revuelta, S., García, I. García, Bellido, J.L. Muñoz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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New Resistant Microbes in Humans
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4708072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2015.11.006
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author Egido, S. Hernández
Ruiz, M. Siller
Inés Revuelta, S.
García, I. García
Bellido, J.L. Muñoz
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Ruiz, M. Siller
Inés Revuelta, S.
García, I. García
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description Small colony variants (SCV) are slow-growing subpopulations of bacteria usually associated with auxotrophism, causing persistent or recurrent infections. Enterococcus faecalis SCV have been seldom described, and only one case of Enterococcus faecium SCV has been reported, associated with sepsis in a leukaemia patient. Here we report the first case described of bacteraemia and endocarditis by SCV E. faecium in an immunocompetent patient.
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spelling pubmed-47080722016-02-09 Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient Egido, S. Hernández Ruiz, M. Siller Inés Revuelta, S. García, I. García Bellido, J.L. Muñoz New Microbes New Infect New Resistant Microbes in Humans Small colony variants (SCV) are slow-growing subpopulations of bacteria usually associated with auxotrophism, causing persistent or recurrent infections. Enterococcus faecalis SCV have been seldom described, and only one case of Enterococcus faecium SCV has been reported, associated with sepsis in a leukaemia patient. Here we report the first case described of bacteraemia and endocarditis by SCV E. faecium in an immunocompetent patient. Elsevier 2015-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4708072/ /pubmed/26862434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2015.11.006 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Egido, S. Hernández
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Inés Revuelta, S.
García, I. García
Bellido, J.L. Muñoz
Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
title Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
title_full Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
title_fullStr Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
title_full_unstemmed Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
title_short Enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
title_sort enterococcus faecium small colony variant endocarditis in an immunocompetent patient
topic New Resistant Microbes in Humans
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4708072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2015.11.006
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