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Case Reports
. 2013 Oct;51(10):3439-42.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00864-13. Epub 2013 Jul 24.

Cardiac device-related endocarditis caused by Paenibacillus glucanolyticus

Janina Ferrand  1 , Tahar Hadou, Christine Selton-Suty, François Goehringer, Nicolas Sadoul, Corentine Alauzet, Alain Lozniewski
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Case Reports

Cardiac device-related endocarditis caused by Paenibacillus glucanolyticus

Janina Ferrand et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Oct.

Abstract

We report the first case of Paenibacillus glucanolyticus infection in a 65-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes who developed a cardiac device-related endocarditis. The identification of the isolate was performed using phenotypic methods, including mass spectrometry-based methods, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

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Flat, smooth, white opaque, and motile colonies of Paenibacillus glucanolyticus after 48 h of growth on tryptic soy agar with 5% sheep blood (A) and Mueller-Hinton agar (B). Colonies stained as thin and long Gram-negative rods (C and D) with ellipsoidal and terminal unstained cell-swelling spores (D) (magnification, ×1,000).
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