%0 Journal Article %A Schaumburg, Frieder %A Schmalstieg, Christian %A Fiedler, Barbara %A Brentrup, Angela %A Omran, Heymut %A Becker, Karsten %T A bumpy road to the diagnosis of a Kytococcus schroeteri shunt infection %D 2013 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 62 %N 1 %P 165-168 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.045351-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X We report a ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection associated with Kytococcus schroeteri, a Gram-positive bacterium from the family Dermacoccaceae. While the biochemical identification systems do not reliably identify this potential pathogen, sequence-based identification is recommended to guide the antibiotic treatment of this intrinsically meticillin-resistant species, which is susceptible to vancomycin, gentamicin and/or rifampicin. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.045351-0