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SUBMITTER: Daisuke U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5286468 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daisuke Ueno U Oishi Tomohiro T Yamane Kunikazu K Terada Kihei K
Case reports in infectious diseases 20170118
A 49-year-old woman visited our emergency department because of exertional dyspnea due to severe left ventricular functional failure. It progressed to disseminated intravascular coagulation and disturbance of consciousness on day 67 of admission. Gram-positive bacilli were detected from two different blood culture samples on day 67 of admission. An API-Coryne test and sequencing (1~615 bp) of the 16S rRNA gene were performed, and the strain was identified as <i>Corynebacterium striatum</i>. The ...[more]