Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Caused by Dolosigranulum pigrum
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (9) , 3461-3462
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01050-06
Abstract
Dolosigranulum pigrum is an unusual gram-positive catalase-negative coccus. It was isolated, only after prolonged incubation, from bronchial secretions from a patient with ventilator-associated pneumonia. The patient responded well to antimicrobial therapy. Identification was done by 16S rRNA DNA sequence analysis, but it can be done with relatively simple phenotypic tests.Keywords
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