Veillonella montpellierensis endocarditis

Clarisse Rovery; Anne Etienne; Cédric Foucault; Pierre Berger; Philippe Brouqui

doi:10.3201/eid1107.041361

Veillonella montpellierensis endocarditis

Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Jul;11(7):1112-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1107.041361.

Authors

Clarisse Rovery¹, Anne Etienne, Cédric Foucault, Pierre Berger, Philippe Brouqui

Affiliation

¹ Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Veillonella spp. rarely cause infections in humans. We report a case of Veillonella endocarditis documented by isolating a slow-growing, gram-negative microbe in blood cultures. This microbe was identified as the newly recognized species Veillonella montpellierensis (100% homology) by 16S RNA gene sequence analysis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
Female
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / diagnosis
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Humans
Veillonella / isolation & purification*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents