Corynebacterium striatum: An Emerging Nosocomial Drug-Resistant Endocardial Pathogen
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Manuel L. Fernandez Guerrero, Ignacio Robles, Maria del Carmen Nogales, Debora Nuevo Division of Infectious Diseases (Department of Internal Medicine), Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
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| Endocarditis due to Corynebacterium striatum has been rarely reported. A 78-year-old patient developed pacemaker endocarditis caused by multidrug-resistant C. striatum, complicated by vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess. Daptomycin therapy successfully | eradicated the bacteremia and metastatic infection. A review of the English literature on this emerging nosocomial, multidrug-resistant pathogen is included.
The Journal of Heart Valve Disease 2013;22:428-430 |
| Corynebacterium striatum: An Emerging Nosocomial Drug-Resistant Endocardial Pathogen | |
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