Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human

Streptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals. Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation. We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S. thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient adm...

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Autores principales: Petridis, Nikolaos, Apsemidou, Athanasia, Kalopitas, Georgios, Pilianidis, Georgios, Avramidis, Iakovos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30631614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7956890
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Sumario:Streptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals. Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation. We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S. thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient admitted to our department due to fever of unknown origin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of S. thoraltensis bacteremia in a human and the first reported case of S. thoraltensis as a cause of fever of unknown origin in human.

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