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SUBMITTER: Biermann C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC84549 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biermann C C Fries G G Jehnichen P P Bhakdi S S Husmann M M
Journal of clinical microbiology 19990301 3
We report the case of a patient who developed a large brain abscess after neurosurgery. Cerebrospinal fluid from the abscess drainage yielded Abiotrophia adiacens-specific PCR products and microorganisms that were identified by conventional microbiological methods and by 16S ribosomal DNA analysis as Abiotrophia adiacens, which was formerly classified as a member of nutritionally variant streptococci. ...[more]