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Endophthalmitis caused by Enterococcus mundtii.

ABSTRACT: Enterococcus mundtii has rarely been isolated from environmental or human sources. We report the identification of E. mundtii as a pathogen of human infectious disease by DNA sequencing of 16S rRNA and sodA genes in a case of endophthalmitis developed in a 66-year-old immunocompetent gardener.

SUBMITTER: Higashide T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1081296 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Endophthalmitis caused by Enterococcus mundtii.

Higashide Tomomi T Takahashi Mami M Kobayashi Akira A Ohkubo Shinji S Sakurai Mayumi M Shirao Yutaka Y Tamura Toshihiro T Sugiyama Kazuhisa K

Journal of clinical microbiology 20050301 3

Enterococcus mundtii has rarely been isolated from environmental or human sources. We report the identification of E. mundtii as a pathogen of human infectious disease by DNA sequencing of 16S rRNA and sodA genes in a case of endophthalmitis developed in a 66-year-old immunocompetent gardener. ...[more]

PMID: 15750139

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