Query pertaining to case report on Lactococcus garvieae meningitis
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Infective endocarditis with Lactococcus garvieae in Japan: a case report
INTRODUCTION Lactococcus garvieae is a well-recognized fish pathogen, and it is considered a rare pathogen with low virulence in human infection. We describe the 11th case of L. garvieae infective endocarditis reported in the literature, and the first reported case in Japan. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 55-year-old Japanese woman who had native valve endocarditis with L. garvieae. ...
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Lactococcus garvieae is known as a Gram-positive, catalase-negative, and facultatively anaerobic fish pathogen. The association between Lactococcus spp. and human infectious diseases is described as being mainly associated with lumbar osteomyelitis, hepatic abscess, and infective endocarditis. In the literature of orthopedic post-prosthetic infections, L. garvieae was associated with a case of ...
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Lactococcus garvieae is considered a low virulence organism which is rarely associated with human infections. Most of the reported cases have been associated with bacteremia with or without endocarditis. We report a rare case of catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) caused by Lactococcus garvieae and Escherichia coli coinfection without any bacteremia in a patient with indwelling ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal Armed Forces India
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0377-1237
DOI: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2017.02.001