TY - JOUR
T1 - Gemella Species Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection
AU - Jayananda, Sriraksha
AU - Gollol-Raju, Narasimha Swamy
AU - Fadul, Nada
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Sriraksha Jayananda et al.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Gemella species are part of normal human flora. They are rarely associated with infections. As opportunistic pathogens, they can cause life-threatening infection in individuals with risk factors. We present an unusual case of an elderly patient, with no predisposing risk factors, who presented with respiratory tract infection and Gemella species bacteremia and suffered a stroke in the absence of features of endocarditis.
AB - Gemella species are part of normal human flora. They are rarely associated with infections. As opportunistic pathogens, they can cause life-threatening infection in individuals with risk factors. We present an unusual case of an elderly patient, with no predisposing risk factors, who presented with respiratory tract infection and Gemella species bacteremia and suffered a stroke in the absence of features of endocarditis.
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U2 - 10.1155/2017/1098527
DO - 10.1155/2017/1098527
M3 - Article
C2 - 28115939
AN - SCOPUS:85032622702
SN - 1687-9627
VL - 2017
JO - Case Reports in Medicine
JF - Case Reports in Medicine
M1 - 1098527
ER -