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01.02.2016 | Case Report
Endocarditis caused by Streptococcus canis: an emerging zoonosis?
verfasst von:
Guillaume Lacave, Aymeric Coutard, Gilles Troché, Sandrine Augusto, Stéphanie Pons, Benjamin Zuber, Virginie Laurent, Marlène Amara, Brigitte Couzon, Jean-Pierre Bédos, Béatrice Pangon, David Grimaldi
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Infection
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Ausgabe 1/2016
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Abstract
We report a human case of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus canis. Identification was carried out from positive blood culture using mass spectrometry and SodA gene sequencing. S. canis related zoonotic invasive infections may have been previously underdiagnosed due to inadequate identification of group G Streptococcus species.