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A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe

Parvimonas micra is a type of Gram-positive anaerobic cocci widely distributed in the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, and female reproductive system mucosa. It is a conditional pathogen that can cause infections in the human oral cavity, wounds, and other areas as well as sep...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Yuhang, Qin, Weichao, Li, Jian, Gao, Yuan, Zeng, Yan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9530780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36203671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.994279
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author Jiang, Yuhang
Qin, Weichao
Li, Jian
Gao, Yuan
Zeng, Yan
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Qin, Weichao
Li, Jian
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description Parvimonas micra is a type of Gram-positive anaerobic cocci widely distributed in the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, and female reproductive system mucosa. It is a conditional pathogen that can cause infections in the human oral cavity, wounds, and other areas as well as sepsis. In this case report, the patient's immune system was compromised by various underlying diseases and a pulmonary infection, which led to the entry of P. micra infection into the bloodstream. P. micra is a slow-growing organism (When a bloodstream infection occurs, flagging an anaerobic bottle of blood culture as positive will usually take >48 h), which makes it hard to secure timely blood culture results. Our patient's poor physical condition eventually led to sepsis, and she died after 5 days in the hospital.
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spelling pubmed-95307802022-10-05 A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe Jiang, Yuhang Qin, Weichao Li, Jian Gao, Yuan Zeng, Yan Front Public Health Public Health Parvimonas micra is a type of Gram-positive anaerobic cocci widely distributed in the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, and female reproductive system mucosa. It is a conditional pathogen that can cause infections in the human oral cavity, wounds, and other areas as well as sepsis. In this case report, the patient's immune system was compromised by various underlying diseases and a pulmonary infection, which led to the entry of P. micra infection into the bloodstream. P. micra is a slow-growing organism (When a bloodstream infection occurs, flagging an anaerobic bottle of blood culture as positive will usually take >48 h), which makes it hard to secure timely blood culture results. Our patient's poor physical condition eventually led to sepsis, and she died after 5 days in the hospital. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9530780/ /pubmed/36203671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.994279 Text en Copyright © 2022 Jiang, Qin, Li, Gao and Zeng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Jiang, Yuhang
Qin, Weichao
Li, Jian
Gao, Yuan
Zeng, Yan
A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
title A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
title_full A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
title_fullStr A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
title_full_unstemmed A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
title_short A case report of sepsis and death caused by Parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
title_sort case report of sepsis and death caused by parvimonas micra, a rare anaerobe
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9530780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36203671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.994279
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