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Leifsonia Species Bacteremia in a Hemodialysis Patient: A Difficult-to-Identify Organism

Leifsonia is an environmental gram-positive rods bacteria. Infections due to Leifsonia are not common. In this report, we present a case of a hemodialysis patient with Leifsonia bacteremia. A 56-year-old lady had been receiving hemodialysis through the femoral line. She presented with nonspecific sy...

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Autores principales: Al-Sardi, Mais, Radwan, Hiba, Itbaileh, Ahmad B, AlMusa, Zainab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8442807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34540513
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17994