Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human
Streptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals. Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation. We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S. thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient adm...
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| author | Nikolaos Petridis Athanasia Apsemidou Georgios Kalopitas Georgios Pilianidis Iakovos Avramidis |
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| description | Streptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals. Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation. We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S. thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient admitted to our department due to fever of unknown origin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of S. thoraltensis bacteremia in a human and the first reported case of S. thoraltensis as a cause of fever of unknown origin in human. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e4e7ee613bf54c8792d63bc1c64c19892025-02-03T01:23:56ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332018-01-01201810.1155/2018/79568907956890Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in HumanNikolaos Petridis0Athanasia Apsemidou1Georgios Kalopitas2Georgios Pilianidis3Iakovos Avramidis4First Department of Internal Medicine, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, GreeceFirst Department of Internal Medicine, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, GreeceFirst Department of Internal Medicine, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, GreeceFirst Department of Internal Medicine, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, GreeceFirst Department of Internal Medicine, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, GreeceStreptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals. Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation. We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S. thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient admitted to our department due to fever of unknown origin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of S. thoraltensis bacteremia in a human and the first reported case of S. thoraltensis as a cause of fever of unknown origin in human.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7956890 |
| spellingShingle | Nikolaos Petridis Athanasia Apsemidou Georgios Kalopitas Georgios Pilianidis Iakovos Avramidis Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human |
| title_full | Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human |
| title_fullStr | Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human |
| title_full_unstemmed | Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human |
| title_short | Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human |
| title_sort | streptococcus thoraltensis bacteremia first described case as a fever of unknown origin in human |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7956890 |
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