Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Kocuria kristinae is opportunistic Gram-positive cocci from the family Micrococcaceae. It is usually considered part of the normal flora that rarely is isolated from clinical specimens. Here, we report a case of Kocuria kristinae bacteremia; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report fro...

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Autores principales: Hassan, Reem M., Bassiouny, Dina M., Matar, Yomna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5107847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27872773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6318064
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description Kocuria kristinae is opportunistic Gram-positive cocci from the family Micrococcaceae. It is usually considered part of the normal flora that rarely is isolated from clinical specimens. Here, we report a case of Kocuria kristinae bacteremia; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report from Egypt.
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spelling pubmed-51078472016-11-21 Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature Hassan, Reem M. Bassiouny, Dina M. Matar, Yomna Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Kocuria kristinae is opportunistic Gram-positive cocci from the family Micrococcaceae. It is usually considered part of the normal flora that rarely is isolated from clinical specimens. Here, we report a case of Kocuria kristinae bacteremia; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report from Egypt. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5107847/ /pubmed/27872773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6318064 Text en Copyright © 2016 Reem M. Hassan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Bacteremia Caused by Kocuria kristinae from Egypt: Are There More? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort bacteremia caused by kocuria kristinae from egypt: are there more? a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5107847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27872773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6318064
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