Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Cardiobacterium hominis: A Case Report

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dc.contributor.authorWong, Davie
dc.contributor.authorCarson, Julie
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T11:32:23Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T11:32:23Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-01
dc.date.updated2018-09-27T11:32:23Z
dc.description.abstractCardiobacterium hominis, a member of the HACEK group of organisms, is an uncommon but important cause of subacute bacterial endocarditis. First-line therapy is a third-generation cephalosporin due to rare beta-lactamase production. The authors report a case involving endovascular infection due to C hominis that initially tested resistant to third-generation cephalosporins using an antibiotic gradient strip susceptibility method (nitrocephin negative), but later proved to be susceptible using broth microdilution reference methods (a ‘major’ error). There are limited studies to guide susceptibility testing and interpretive breakpoints for C hominis in the medical literature, and the present case illustrates some of the issues that may arise when performing susceptibility testing for fastidious organisms in the clinical microbiology laboratory.
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dc.identifier.citationDavie Wong, Julie Carson, and Andrew Johnson, “Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Cardiobacterium hominis: A Case Report,” Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 41-43, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/568750
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2015/568750
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/108188
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/45467
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2015 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.titleSubacute Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Cardiobacterium hominis: A Case Report
dc.typeJournal Article
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