First Report of a Left Ventricular Assist Device Infection Caused by Staphylococcus Schleiferi Subspecies Coagulans: a Coagulase-positive Organism

Overview

Journal Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Microbiology
Pathology

Date 2012 Jul 4

PMID 22749241

Citations 10

Authors

Evangeline Thibodeau

Helen Boucher

David DeNofrio

Duc Thinh Pham

David Snydman

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Abstract

Staphylococcus schleiferi subspecies coagulans is often misclassified as S. aureus given the production of a pseudocoagulase turning the tube coagulase test positive. It is therefore infrequently reported in the literature. We describe the first case of S. schleiferi subspecies coagulans left ventricular assist device infection in a patient awaiting heart transplantation.

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