%0 Journal Article %A Idelevich, Evgeny A. %A Pogoda, Christian A. %A Ballhausen, Britta %A Wüllenweber, Jörg %A Eckardt, Lars %A Baumgartner, Helmut %A Waltenberger, Johannes %A Peters, Georg %A Becker, Karsten %T Pacemaker lead infection and related bacteraemia caused by normal and small colony variant phenotypes of Bacillus licheniformis %D 2013 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 62 %N 6 %P 940-944 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.051987-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Here, we report what we believe to be the first case of bacteraemia with small colony variants of Bacillus licheniformis related to a pacemaker lead infection by B. licheniformis displaying the normal phenotype. Arbitrarily primed PCR analysis showed a clonal strain. The infection was cured after the removal of the infected device. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.051987-0