Fatal case of bacteremia caused by an atypical strain of Corynebacterium mucifaciens

AUTOR(ES)

Cantarelli, Vlademir Vicente, Brodt, Teresa Cristina. Z., Secchi, Carina, Inamine, Everton, Pereira, Fabiana de Souza, Pilger, Diogo Andre

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006-12

RESUMO

Corynebacterium species have often been considered normal skin flora or contaminants; however, in recent years they have been increasingly implicated in serious infections. Moreover, many new species have been discovered and old species renamed, especially after molecular biology techniques were introduced. Corynebacterium mucifaciens is mainly isolated from blood and from other normally-sterile body fluids; it forms slightly yellow, mucoid colonies on blood agar. We report a fatal case of bacteremia due to an atypical strain of C. mucifaciens. This strain had atypical colony morphology; analysis of the 16S rRNA gene was used to define the species.

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