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Published on: October 13, 2017
Granulicatella adiacens, an unusual causative agent in chronic dacryocystitis
Cristy A Ku1, Blake Forcina2, Paul Rocco LaSala3
1Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA.
Background:
Granulicatella adiacens, a recent taxonomic addition, is a commensal organism of the oral, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts and is rarely encountered in the orbit and eye.
Findings:
We present a 46-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic dacryocystitis who underwent an external dacryocystorhinostomy and was found to have G. adiacens.
Conclusions:
This is an unusual causative organism isolated in the nasolacrimal system and, to our knowledge, the first reported case of chronic dacryocystitis associated with G. adiacens.
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