: an elusive cause of neurosurgical infection Free

Abstract

Coryneform bacteria are usually considered as non-pathogenic when isolated from clinical specimens. We present a case of neurosurgical infection in an immunocompetent patient, and highlight the difficulty with identification and interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibility results for this unusual pathogen.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.043109-0
2013-03-01
2024-03-29
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/jmm/62/3/486.html?itemId=/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.043109-0&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Brazzola P., Zbinden R., Rudin C., Schaad U. B., Heininger U. 2000; Brevibacterium casei sepsis in an 18-year-old female with AIDS. J Clin Microbiol 38:3513–3514[PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Breed R. S. 1953 The families developed from Bacteriaceae Cohn with a description of the family Brevibacteriaceae. VI Congresso Internazionale Microbiologia Roma 1, 10–15
  3. Dass K. N., Smith M. A., Gill V. J., Goldstein S. A., Lucey D. R. 2002; Brevibacterium endocarditis: a first report. Clin Infect Dis 35:e20–e21 [View Article][PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Gruner E., Steigerwalt A. G., Hollis D. G., Weyant R. S., Weaver R. E., Moss C. W., Daneshvar M., Brown J. M., Brenner D. J. 1994; Human infections caused by Brevibacterium casei, formerly CDC groups B-1 and B-3. J Clin Microbiol 32:1511–1518[PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Hoppe-Seyler T. S., Jaeger B., Bockelmann W., Geis A., Heller K. J. 2007; Molecular identification and differentiation of Brevibacterium species and strains. Syst Appl Microbiol 30:50–57 [View Article][PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Pascual C., Collins M. D., Funke G., Pitcher G. 1996; Phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of two Brevibacterium strains from the human ear: description of Brevibacterium otitidis sp. nov.. Med Microbiol Lett 5:113–123
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Pitcher D. G., Malnick H. 1984; Identification of Brevibacterium from clinical sources. J Clin Pathol 37:1395–1398 [View Article][PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Ulrich S., Zbinden R., Pagano M., Fischler M., Speich R. 2006; Central venous catheter infection with Brevibacterium sp. in an immunocompetent woman: case report and review of the literature. Infection 34:103–106 [View Article][PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Wauters G., Van Bosterhaut B., Avesani V., Cuvelier R., Charlier J., Janssens M., Delmée M. 2000; Peritonitis due to Brevibacterium otitidis in a patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. J Clin Microbiol 38:4292–4293[PubMed]
    [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.043109-0
Loading
/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.043109-0
Loading

Data & Media loading...

Most cited Most Cited RSS feed