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01.08.2010 | Correspondence
Rothia aeria acute bronchitis: the first reported case
verfasst von:
J. Michon, D. Jeulin, J.-M. Lang, V. Cattoir
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Infection
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Ausgabe 4/2010
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Excerpt
The genus
Rothia belongs to the family
Micrococcaceae and comprises aerobic, Gram-positive coccoid, coccobacillary or filamentous, non-acid-fast, non-spore-forming, non-hemolytic, and nonmotile bacterial species. There are actually six species in this genus (
http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/):
Rothia aeria,
R. amarae,
R. dentocariosa,
R. mucilaginosa (formerly
Stomatococcus mucilaginosus),
R. nasimurium, and
R. terrae. Although
R. amarae,
R. nasimurium, and
R. terrae have never been identified in clinical specimens [
1‐
3],
R. dentocariosa is the most frequently species isolated from humans, and has been found to cause mainly bacteremia and endocarditis [
4]. In addition,
R. mucilaginosa is also rarely responsible for human infections such as bacteremia, especially in neutropenic patients [
5]. Concerning
R. aeria, it was first isolated from air and condensation water samples from the Russian space station, Mir, in 1997 [
6], and has once been identified as an opportunistic pathogen in a neonatal sepsis [
7]. …
