Helcococcus ovis in a patient with an artificial eye: a case report and literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Helcococcus ovis, belonging to the genus of Helcococcu in Peptostreptococcaceae, is one kind of facultative anaerobic and gram-positive cocci, which was first isolated from a mixed infection in sheep in 1999. To our knowledge, it's known as an invasive pathogen in animals, and never been reported as a human pathogen in published literature. The aims of this work are to describe the first report of H. ovis which was recovered from the artificial eye of human case and perform a literature review.

Case presentation

A 26 year-old man reporting pyogenic infection with an artificial eye attended ophthalmic ward in Tongji hospital. After physical examination, clinical and laboratory investigations, the diagnosis of eye infection caused by Helcococcus ovis and Staphylococ

SUBMITTER: Mao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092862 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature