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Article: Bacteremia and Endocarditis Caused by a Gordonia Species in a Patient with a Central Venous Catheter.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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We report the first case of endocarditis caused by a Gordonia species genetically related to G. sputi but exhibiting some atypical biochemical features in a 31-year-old woman with a central venous catheter. This unusual pathogen may be a new cause of opportunistic infections in patients with severe underlying diseases.
Gordonia spp. are a gram-positive coryneform bacteria, recently identified in three patients as a cause of systemic infections (1,2), including two associated with indwelling implantable subcutaneous central venous catheters (2). We report Gordonia spp.'s capacity to infect a patient's undamaged cardiac valve through an implantable subcutaneous ...