Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Jan;52(1):370-3. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02550-13. Epub 2013 Oct 30.
Helcococcus kunzii was isolated from a brain abscess in a diabetic patient with cholesteatoma and demonstrated satellitism around Staphylococcus aureus in culture. This is the first reported case of severe central nervous system infection due to H. kunzii and the first description of a satelliting phenotypic variant of this organism.
金氏金球菌从一位患有胆脂瘤的糖尿病患者的脑脓肿中分离出来,在培养过程中表现出与金黄色葡萄球菌的卫星现象。这是首例由金氏金球菌引起的严重中枢神经系统感染病例,也是该菌卫星表型变异的首次描述。