Finegoldia magna, not a well-known infectious agent of bacteriemic post-sternotomy mediastinitis.

Authors :: de Moreuil C
Héry-Arnaud G
David CH
Provost B
Mondine P
Alavi Z
de Saint Martin L
Bezon E
Berre RL
Source :: Anaerobe [Anaerobe] 2015 Apr; Vol. 32, pp. 32-33. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Nov 28.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: Post-sternotomy mediastinitis, a nosocomial infection mostly caused by staphylococci, can be life-threatening. A case of mediastinitis due to Finegoldia magna after a coronary artery bypass graft surgery was reviewed. Although this bacterium is difficult to be isolated from routine blood cultures, a F. magna bacteriemia associated with mediastinitis was diagnosed.<br /> (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Subjects :: Aged
Cross Infection
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections diagnosis
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections drug therapy
Humans
Male
Mediastinitis diagnosis
Mediastinitis drug therapy
Treatment Outcome
Firmicutes
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections microbiology
Mediastinitis microbiology
Postoperative Complications
Sternotomy

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