1. Multicenter Study of the Clinical Presentation of Staphylococcus lugdunensis Bacteremia in Japan
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Kazuhisa Mezaki, Yusuke Ainoda, Hanako Kurai, Muneyoshi Kimura, Ryota Hase, Masahiro Abe, Takahiro Mikawa, Hideki Araoka, Naoto Hosokawa, Ichiro Kawamura, Nozomi Takeshita, Kyoichi Totsuka, Takahiro Fujita, Noritaka Sekiya, and Norio Ohmagari
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030106 microbiology ,Staphylococcus lugdunensis ,Staphylococcal infections ,medicine.disease_cause ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Endocarditis ,Blood culture ,030212 general & internal medicine ,biology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,General Medicine ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Infectious Diseases ,Bacteremia ,Infective endocarditis ,business ,Staphylococcus - Abstract
Staphylococcus lugdunensis (SL) is a bacterium with a highly pathogenicity than most other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (CoNS). In Japan, data on this pathogen are sparse, and the current prevalence of SL bacteremia is unknown. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of SL in blood culture specimens in a prospective multicenter study across 5 facilities. A total of 3,284 patients had positive blood cultures, and 2,478 patients had bacteremia. Among the patients with bacteremia, 7 patients (0.28%) had SL bacteremia. A total of 281 patients had CoNS bacteremia, with SL accounting for 2.49% of these cases. Of the 7 patients with SL bacteremia, 1 patient (14.3%) had infective endocarditis, and 1 patient (14.3%) died within 30 days. In this study, SL resulted in the development of bacteremia in select patients. Clinicians in Japan should be aware of the prevalence of SL and the complications of SL bacteremia.
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- 2017
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