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Nikolaos Petridis1, Athanasia Apsemidou1, Georgios Kalopitas1
1First Department of Internal Medicine, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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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