Department of Microbiology, Cleveland Clinic Health System, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Jun;51(6):1990-2. doi: 10.1128/JCM.03400-12. Epub 2013 Apr 3.
Lactococcus garvieae is a Gram-positive coccus that has morphological and biochemical similarities to enterococci. L. garvieae strains rare human pathogens, with only a few cases reported in the literature, mainly as a cause of infective endocarditis. L. garvieae is well known as a fish pathogen, and in some of the reported cases, the patients had a history of contact with raw fish. Some of the reported endocarditis patients had valvular damage as a predisposing condition. We report a case of L. garvieae endocarditis in a patient with no history of contact with raw fish and with history of valvular repair in an unaffected heart valve.
加氏乳球菌是一种革兰阳性球菌，其形态和生化特性与肠球菌相似。加氏乳球菌是人畜共患病原菌，文献中仅有少数几例报道，主要引起感染性心内膜炎。加氏乳球菌是一种熟知的鱼类病原体，在一些报道的病例中，患者有接触生鱼的病史。一些报道的心内膜炎患者存在易患瓣膜损伤的情况。我们报告了一例无接触生鱼病史且心脏未受累瓣膜曾接受过修复的加氏乳球菌心内膜炎患者。
