Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection

Gemella species are part of normal human flora. They are rarely associated with infections. As opportunistic pathogens, they can cause life-threatening infection in individuals with risk factors. We present an unusual case of an elderly patient, with no predisposing risk factors, who presented with...

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Autores principales: Jayananda, Sriraksha, Gollol-Raju, Narasimha Swamy, Fadul, Nada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28115939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1098527
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author Jayananda, Sriraksha
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description Gemella species are part of normal human flora. They are rarely associated with infections. As opportunistic pathogens, they can cause life-threatening infection in individuals with risk factors. We present an unusual case of an elderly patient, with no predisposing risk factors, who presented with respiratory tract infection and Gemella species bacteremia and suffered a stroke in the absence of features of endocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-52377222017-01-23 Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection Jayananda, Sriraksha Gollol-Raju, Narasimha Swamy Fadul, Nada Case Rep Med Case Report Gemella species are part of normal human flora. They are rarely associated with infections. As opportunistic pathogens, they can cause life-threatening infection in individuals with risk factors. We present an unusual case of an elderly patient, with no predisposing risk factors, who presented with respiratory tract infection and Gemella species bacteremia and suffered a stroke in the absence of features of endocarditis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5237722/ /pubmed/28115939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1098527 Text en Copyright © 2017 Sriraksha Jayananda 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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Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
title Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
title_full Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
title_fullStr Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
title_full_unstemmed Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
title_short Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
title_sort gemella species bacteremia and stroke in an elderly patient with respiratory tract infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28115939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1098527
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