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
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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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author Toyoshima, Hirokazu
Fujii, Koji
Tanigawa, Motoaki
Nakamura, Akiko
Tanabe, Masaki
Tanaka, Hiroyuki
Nakanishi, Yuki
Sakabe, Shigetoshi
author_facet Toyoshima, Hirokazu
Fujii, Koji
Tanigawa, Motoaki
Nakamura, Akiko
Tanabe, Masaki
Tanaka, Hiroyuki
Nakanishi, Yuki
Sakabe, Shigetoshi
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description 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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spelling pubmed-81880132021-06-16 The First Case Report of Mediastinal Abscess Caused by Gemella bergeri Toyoshima, Hirokazu Fujii, Koji Tanigawa, Motoaki Nakamura, Akiko Tanabe, Masaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Yuki Sakabe, Shigetoshi Intern Med Case Report 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. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020-12-29 2021-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8188013/ /pubmed/33390483 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5043-20 Text en Copyright © 2021 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Nakanishi, Yuki
Sakabe, Shigetoshi
The First Case Report of Mediastinal Abscess Caused by Gemella bergeri
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title_sort first case report of mediastinal abscess caused by gemella bergeri
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url 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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