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Siddharth Sridhar1, Jasper F W Chan, Kwok-Yung Yuen
1Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|November 1, 2013
Abstract:
Helcococcus kunzii was isolated from a brain abscess in a diabetic patient with cholesteatoma and demonstrated satellitism around Staphylococcus aureus in culture. This is the first reported case of severe central nervous system infection due to H. kunzii and the first description of a satelliting phenotypic variant of this organism.

