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Isolation of Abiotrophia adiacens from a brain abscess which developed in a patient after neurosurgery.


ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Biermann C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC84549 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Isolation of Abiotrophia adiacens from a brain abscess which developed in a patient after neurosurgery.

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]

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