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J Med Microbiol 57 (2008), 1299-1302; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/003343-0
© 2008 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Case Report

Endocarditis due to Corynebacterium amycolatum

Aman Dalal1, Carl Urban1,2 and Sorana Segal-Maurer1,3

1 Division of Infectious Diseases, New York Hospital Queens, Flushing, NY, USA

2 Department of Microbiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA

3 Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA

Correspondence
Aman Dalal
amandalal{at}hotmail.com

Received 12 May 2008
Accepted 9 June 2008

Corynebacterium amycolatum, a normal inhabitant of human skin, is a Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, mycolic acid-free, aerobic or facultative anaerobic bacillus. Since its description in 1988, it has only rarely been associated with infective endocarditis. This paper describes a case of infective endocarditis successfully treated by combination therapy with daptomycin and rifampicin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of C. amycolatum endocarditis from the USA successfully treated with these agents.






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