Dermacoccus sp. isolated from a brain abscess in a 4-year-old child Academic Article

abstract

• Dermacoccus spp. have rarely been reported as human pathogens. We describe a case of a 4-year-old boy with congenital heart disease who was diagnosed with a brain abscess. The abscess was drained and the sample grew Streptococcus intermedius, Aggregatibacter aphrophilus and Dermacoccus sp.. Dermacoccus grew after 5 days of incubation and the patient was treated with meropenem.

authors

• Ivaska, Lauri
• Alyazidi, Raidan
• Hoang, Linda
• Goldfarb, David

status

• published 

publication date

• December 2019

has subject area

• 1115 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FoR)
• Actinobacteria (MeSH)
• Aggregatibacter aphrophilus (MeSH)
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (MeSH)
• Brain Abscess (MeSH)
• Child, Preschool (MeSH)
• Coinfection (MeSH)
• Drainage (MeSH)
• Heart Defects, Congenital (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Meropenem (MeSH)
• Microbiology (Science Metrix)
• Pasteurellaceae Infections (MeSH)
• Streptococcal Infections (MeSH)
• Streptococcus intermedius (MeSH)
• Treatment Outcome (MeSH)

published in

• Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy  Journal

keywords

• Actinobacteria
• Aggregatibacter aphrophilus
• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Brain Abscess
• Brain abscess
• Case report
• Child, Preschool
• Children
• Coinfection
• Dermacoccus
• Drainage
• Heart Defects, Congenital
• Humans
• Male
• Meropenem
• Pasteurellaceae Infections
• Streptococcal Infections
• Streptococcus intermedius
• Treatment Outcome

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jiac.2019.05.033

PubMed ID

• 31253474

start page

• 1070

end page

• 1073

volume

• 25

issue

• 12