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J Med Microbiol 58 (2009), 270-272; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.004697-0
© 2009 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Case Report

Human bloodstream infection caused by Staphylococcus pettenkoferi

Sang Hoon Song1,2, Jeong Su Park2, Hye Rin Kwon1, Sung Han Kim3, Hong Bin Kim3, Ho Eun Chang1, Kyoung Un Park1,2, Junghan Song1,2 and Eui Chong Kim2

1 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

3 Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Correspondence
Kyoung Un Park
m91w95{at}dreamwiz.com

Received July 2, 2008
Accepted October 16, 2008

Staphylococcus pettenkoferi is a recently isolated human pathogen with only a few reported cases of infection. We report a case of bloodstream infection caused by S. pettenkoferi in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Abbreviations: CoNS, coagulase-negative staphylococci.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the S. pettenkoferi isolate is FJ222447.






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