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A Case of Septicemia by Granulicatella adiacens
Ohgun Kwon, M.D.1, Soon Duk Park, M.D.1, Young Uh, M.D.1 Kap Jun Yoon, M.D.1, Sang Ok Kwon, M.D.2 and Hyo Youl Kim, M.D.2
Departments of Laboratory Medicine1, Internal Medicine2, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea
Vol.37 Num.6 (p368~371)
Granulicatella adiacens was first described as nutritionally variant streptococci, and named as Streptococcus adjacens and Abiotrophia adiacens. Granulicatella species are flora of oral cavity, upper respiratory, urogenital, and gastrointestinal tracts, and are normal often isolated from patients with infective endocarditis. G. adiacens endocarditis is associated with high mortality, but the species hardly grow in the ordinary growth media. We report a case of septicemia caused by G. adiacens in a 52-year-old woman with liver cirrhosis and chronic renal failure.
Keywords : Granulicatella adiacens, Abiotrophia, Nutritionally variant streptococci, Septicemia