First Report of Human Infection by Agromyces mediolanus, a Gram-Positive Organism Found in Soil

We report the first human infection by a member of the Agromyces genus, a group of Gram-positive bacteria found in soil. A patient with a long-term venous catheter developed bacteremia due to a non-vancomycin-susceptible isolate of Agromyces mediolanus. Rapid identification was possible by matrix-as...

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Published in:J Clin Microbiol
Main Authors: Sridhar, Siddharth, Wang, Angela Y. M., Chan, Jasper F. W., Yip, Cyril C. Y., Lau, Susanna K. P., Woo, Patrick C. Y., Yuen, Kwok-Yung
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015
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Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4572564/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26202108
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01508-15
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