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Relevance of Dermabacter hominis isolated from clinical samples, 2012-2016: a retrospective case series
Cédéric Schaub1, Sarah Dräger2, Vladimira Hinic3
1Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|July 20, 2020
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We investigated the clinical relevance of Dermabacter hominis isolated from samples of 108 patients. Polymicrobial growth was evident in 88% of specimens. Isolation of D. hominis was of definitive or possible significance in only 14% of patients. Vancomycin remains the drug of choice given a penicillin resistance rate of 84%.
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