Kiratisin Pattarachai, Koomanachai Pornpan, Kowwigkai Premwadee, Pattanachaiwit Supanit, Aswapokee Nalinee, Leelaporn Amornrut
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2006 Nov;56(3):317-20. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.05.005. Epub 2006 Jul 18.
Inquilinus is the newly described genus and has never been recognized as a cause of infective endocarditis. We report a case of early-onset prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Inquilinus sp. in a tetralogy of Fallot patient who presented with heart failure. The bacterium was recovered from 11 consecutive blood cultures and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
隐匿杆菌属是新描述的属,从未被认为是感染性心内膜炎的病因。我们报告1例法洛四联症患者发生由隐匿杆菌属引起的早发性人工瓣膜心内膜炎并出现心力衰竭。该细菌从连续11次血培养中分离出来,并通过16S rRNA基因测序进行鉴定。