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Case Reports
. 2011 Dec;49(12):4377-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.05645-11. Epub 2011 Oct 12.

Staphylococcus hyicus bacteremia in a farmer

Carlo Casanova  1 , Lukas Iselin, Niklaus von Steiger, Sara Droz, Parham Sendi
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Case Reports

Staphylococcus hyicus bacteremia in a farmer

Carlo Casanova et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Dec.

Abstract

Bacteria known in animal infectious diseases can cause challenges in human diagnostic laboratories. We present pitfalls in the identification and susceptibility testing of Staphylococcus hyicus, a pathogen that typically causes exudative epidermitis in pigs. In this case, the coagulase-positive staphylococcus isolated from a septic patient was misidentified as Staphylococcus aureus.

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