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Isolation of Brain-infiltrating Leukocytes
Published on: June 13, 2011
Isolation of Abiotrophia adiacens from a brain abscess which developed in a patient after neurosurgery
C Biermann1, G Fries, P Jehnichen
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 55101 Mainz, Germany. Biermann@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 13, 1999
Abstract:
We report the case of a patient who developed a large brain abscess after neurosurgery. Cerebrospinal fluid from the abscess drainage yielded Abiotrophia adiacens-specific PCR products and microorganisms that were identified by conventional microbiological methods and by 16S ribosomal DNA analysis as Abiotrophia adiacens, which was formerly classified as a member of nutritionally variant streptococci.
