Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India

Aerococci are fastidious, gram-positive Streptococcus-like organisms widely distributed in the hospital environment. Aerococcus viridans is primarily an opportunistic pathogen. Very few cases of A. viridans bacteremia have been reported so far probably because of its misidentification as streptococc...

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Autores principales: Varshini, Krithika, Ganesan, Vithiya, Charles, Jhansi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35110856
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24072
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description Aerococci are fastidious, gram-positive Streptococcus-like organisms widely distributed in the hospital environment. Aerococcus viridans is primarily an opportunistic pathogen. Very few cases of A. viridans bacteremia have been reported so far probably because of its misidentification as streptococci. Here we report an interesting case of A. viridans bacteremia. How to cite this article: Varshini K, Ganesan V, Charles J. Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(1):127–128.
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spelling pubmed-87832392022-02-01 Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India Varshini, Krithika Ganesan, Vithiya Charles, Jhansi Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Aerococci are fastidious, gram-positive Streptococcus-like organisms widely distributed in the hospital environment. Aerococcus viridans is primarily an opportunistic pathogen. Very few cases of A. viridans bacteremia have been reported so far probably because of its misidentification as streptococci. Here we report an interesting case of A. viridans bacteremia. How to cite this article: Varshini K, Ganesan V, Charles J. Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022;26(1):127–128. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2022-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8783239/ /pubmed/35110856 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24072 Text en Copyright © 2022; The Author(s). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© The Author(s). 2022 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India
title_fullStr Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India
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title_short Aerococcus viridans Bacteremia: A Rare Case Report from India
title_sort aerococcus viridans bacteremia: a rare case report from india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35110856
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-24072
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