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Case Reports
. 2013 May;51(5):1629-32.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.03173-12. Epub 2013 Mar 6.

Rothia mucilaginosa prosthetic device infections: a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis

Jackrapong Bruminhent  1 , Mindy J Tokarczyk, Donald Jungkind, Joseph A DeSimone Jr
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Rothia mucilaginosa prosthetic device infections: a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis

Jackrapong Bruminhent et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 May.

Abstract

Rothia mucilaginosa is increasingly recognized as an emerging opportunistic pathogen associated with prosthetic device infections. Infective endocarditis is one of the most common clinical presentations. We report a case of R. mucilaginosa prosthetic valve endocarditis and review the literature of prosthetic device infections caused by this organism.

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(A) Growth on chocolate agar produced sticky colonies that adhered to the agar. (B) Growth on sheep blood agar produced sticky, “staph-like” colonies that were whitish to gray in color, nonhemolytic, smooth, and round and exhibited the typical tenacious morphology of Rothia mucilaginosa.
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