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
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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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author Petridis, Nikolaos
Apsemidou, Athanasia
Kalopitas, Georgios
Pilianidis, Georgios
Avramidis, Iakovos
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description 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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spelling pubmed-63050162019-01-10 Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human Petridis, Nikolaos Apsemidou, Athanasia Kalopitas, Georgios Pilianidis, Georgios Avramidis, Iakovos Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report 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. Hindawi 2018-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6305016/ /pubmed/30631614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7956890 Text en Copyright © 2018 Nikolaos Petridis et al. http://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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Avramidis, Iakovos
Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human
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title_short Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human
title_sort streptococcus thoraltensis bacteremia: first described case as a fever of unknown origin in human
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url 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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