Dolosigranulum pigrum: Predicting Severity of Infection

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 15 Aug 2020 United States English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Cureus (issn: 2168-8184,

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Authors: Sherret, John; Gajjar, Bhavesh; Ibrahim, Lamis; Elgazzar, Ahmed Mohamed; Panta, Utsab R.;

doi: 10.7759/cureus.9770

pmid: 32953288

pmc: PMC7491695

Dolosigranulum pigrum: Predicting Severity of Infection

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In this report, we describe a case of a 61-year-old male patient who had the bacterium Dolosigranulum pigrum growing in a blood culture. It was susceptible to ampicillin, ceftriaxone, levofloxacin, and vancomycin but was intermediately resistant to erythromycin. The patient did not have a negative outcome as a consequence of this bacterium, which retrospectively could have been predicted based on the epidemiological data within the patient's profile.

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United States

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Tennessee State University
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East Tennessee State University
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Keywords

immunocompromised, opportunistic infection, 616, Internal Medicine, 610, antibiotic susceptibility, dolosigranulum pigrum

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