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The Journal of the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology |
Biblioraphy Information
| ArticleTitle |
A Case of Infectious Endocarditis Caused by Granulicatella elegans |
| Language |
J |
| AuthorList |
Yuriko Nonomiya1), Akiko Miura1), Yuki Yamada1), Makiko Kurota1), Masayuki Tsujimura1), Ritsuko Obata1), Kumiko Yamahata1), Rie Ogasawara2), Akira Suwabe2), Masahiro Hayashi3), Yoshiaki Kawamura4) |
| Affiliation |
1) Central Clinical Laboratory, Iwate Medical University Hospital
2) The Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine Iwate Medical University
3) Department of Microbiology Regeneration and Advanced Medi-cal Science, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine
4) Department of Microbiology Aichigakuin University, School of Pharmacy |
| Publication |
J.J.C.M.: 16 (2), 89-95, 2006 |
| Received |
April 21, 2005 |
| Accepted |
March 27, 2006 |
| Abstract |
We report the case of a 53-year-old woman who suffered from cough and slight fever after dental therapy. She was taken to the nearest general hospital and diagnosed with mitral and aortic valve regurgitation due to infectious endocarditis, then to our Iwate Medical University Memorial Heart Center for surgery. Granulicatella elegans, which is one of the nutritionally variant streptococci (NVS) and is rarely reported in Japan, was isolated from consecutive arterial and venous blood cultures. We were able to identify this rare bacterium because the medium we routinely use to isolate blood cultures, Brucella HK medium (hemin, vitamin K1) and sheep blood agar M58, was suitable for NVS, and because we performed a genetic analysis in addition to using a simple identification kit. |
| Keywords |
Granulicatella elegans, nutritionally variant streptococci |
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