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Case Reports
. 2018 Dec 2:2018:7956890.
doi: 10.1155/2018/7956890. eCollection 2018.

Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human

Nikolaos Petridis  1 , Athanasia Apsemidou  1 , Georgios Kalopitas  1 , Georgios Pilianidis  1 , Iakovos Avramidis  1
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Streptococcus thoraltensis Bacteremia: First Described Case as a Fever of Unknown Origin in Human

Nikolaos Petridis et al. Case Rep Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Streptococcus thoraltensis has mainly been reported to cause infections in animals. Its clinical significance as a human pathogen has not yet been fully elucidated and needs further investigation. We describe here a case of bacteremia attributed to S. thoraltensis in a 55-year-old female patient admitted to our department due to fever of unknown origin. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of S. thoraltensis bacteremia in a human and the first reported case of S. thoraltensis as a cause of fever of unknown origin in human.

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Susceptibility test of Streptococcus thoraltensis isolate.
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