The First Case Report of Mediastinal Abscess Caused by Gemella bergeri

Most cases of mediastinal abscess occur as a postoperative complication of a thoracic surgical procedure or following trauma. The most common causative microorganism is Staphylococcus aureus, but it can be rarely caused by unusual microorganisms, such as Gemella species. These are relatively difficu...

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Autores principales: Toyoshima, Hirokazu, Fujii, Koji, Tanigawa, Motoaki, Nakamura, Akiko, Tanabe, Masaki, Tanaka, Hiroyuki, Nakanishi, Yuki, Sakabe, Shigetoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33390483
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5043-20
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Sumario:Most cases of mediastinal abscess occur as a postoperative complication of a thoracic surgical procedure or following trauma. The most common causative microorganism is Staphylococcus aureus, but it can be rarely caused by unusual microorganisms, such as Gemella species. These are relatively difficult-to-identify commensal microorganisms of the upper respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts and may cause several infections. A 66-year-old man was diagnosed with Gemella bergeri mediastinal abscess by the molecular detection of bacterial genes. He was successfully treated with penicillin antibiotic for eight weeks. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of mediastinal abscess caused by G. bergeri.

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