2014
DOI: 10.1111/apm.12219
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Fulminant neonatal sepsis due to Streptococcus alactolyticus -A case report and review

Abstract: Group D streptococci have rarely been associated with neonatal infections. We report a case of fulminant respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) caused by Streptococcus alactolyticus in a term neonate. Gram staining revealed gram-positive cocci and culture grew group D streptococci in samples taken from trachea, ear, and nasopharynx. Streptococcus alactolyticus was identified using automated microbial identification system (Vitek 2). Histopathology showed massive pulmonary inflammation with intra-alveolar granuloc… Show more

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“…S. alactolyticus was reported as a causative agent in a patient with IE complicated by septic emboli (14). Another fatal case of fulminant neonatal sepsis caused by this pathogen was also reported (15). Our patient presented with S. alactolyticus bacteriemia and aortic valve endocarditis.…”
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confidence: 52%
“…S. alactolyticus was reported as a causative agent in a patient with IE complicated by septic emboli (14). Another fatal case of fulminant neonatal sepsis caused by this pathogen was also reported (15). Our patient presented with S. alactolyticus bacteriemia and aortic valve endocarditis.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 52%
“…Gram's stain of the abscess wall confirmed the presence of Gram-positive cocci strengthening the hypothesis that this novel bacterium was the possible cause of the abscess. S alactolyticus has been isolated from birds, pigs and human beings (Vandamme and others 1999, Toepfner and others 2014), but it is likely that this is the first time it has been reported as associated with infection in sheep (Encyclopedia 2016). …”
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confidence: 99%
“…Despite appropriate treatment, the patient showed no in clinical symptoms and signs and died within 23 hours of life. S. alactolyticus was identified in the gastric and tracheal fluid of the patient but no pathogen was found in the blood and CSF [2].…”
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“…S. alactolyticus is an extremely rare causative pathogen of human infection [1]. Until now, only three cases of human infection are reported, and only one of them was neonatal sepsis [2]. A 65-year-old woman with a history of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was diagnosed as S. alactolyticus infective endocarditis which was complicated by septic emboli and mycotic left middle cerebral artery aneurysm [4].…”
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