Life-Threatening Invasive Helcococcus kunzii Infections in Intravenous-Drug Users and ermA-Mediated Erythromycin Resistance

We report the first two cases of life-threatening invasive Helcococcus kunzii infection, with primary bacteremia and empyema thoracis, respectively. Gram smears of both H. kunzii isolates showed a mixture of gram-positive and gram-negative cocci. The isolate from the first patient, resistant to eryt...

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Hauptverfasser: Woo, Patrick C. Y., Tse, Herman, Wong, Samson S. Y., Tse, Cindy W. S., Fung, Ami M. Y., Tam, Dorothy M. W., Lau, Susanna K. P., Yuen, Kwok-yung
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology 2005
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1317203/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16333132
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.43.12.6205-6208.2005
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