Bacteraemia Caused by Kytococcus schroeteri in a Pneumonia Patient

Ha, Jihye; Kim, Keon Han

doi:10.4172/2161-0703.1000199

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“…In 9 cases, 7 involved an aortic valve and 2 involved a mitral valve (Al Tamtami et al, 2019). K. schroeteri has also been associated with other site infections (pneumonia, septic arthritis and osteomyelitis), but only in immunocompromised patients, in contrast with the cases of PVE (Chan et al, 2012;Amaraneni et al, 2015;Hodiamont et al, 2010;Ha et al, 2015). Based on this we can admit the HIV infection as a possible risk factor for K. schroeteri PVE, despite this association not being well established at the time.…”

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Kytococcus Schroeteri Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Complicated by Aortic Pseudoaneurysm: A Rare Complication from A Rare Agent

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Lacerda Teixeira,

Albuquerque

et al. 2024

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Kytococcus schroeteri is a rarely described slow-growing gram-positive coccus, with recent association with Infective Endocarditis cases. A 29-year-old male with prior history of rheumatic valvular heart disease and HIV infection, previously submitted to two cardiac surgeries, the last one 12 years ago with mechanical mitral and aortic valve implantation plus tricuspid annuloplasty was evacuated from Cape Verde with congestive heart failure and no features of infection. The diagnostic workup revealed an aortic paravalvular leak and a large pseudoaneurysm as well as a severe tricuspid regurgitation. The patient underwent surgery with Bentall procedure and a mechanical tricuspid valve implantation. The microbiologic exam of the removed aortic valve using 16sRNA sequencing showed a Kytococcus schroeteri, revealing its association with a severe complicated case of prosthetic valve endocarditis

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