Infectious Disease Reports (Jun 2014)

Staphylococcus lugdunensis: novel organism causing cochlear implant infection

  • Samina Bhumbra,
  • Mona Mahboubi,
  • R. Alexander Blackwood

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2014.5406
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2

Abstract

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A majority of cochlear implant infections are caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reported here is a pediatric patient with a cochlear implant infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis, a coagulase-negative Staphylococcus that has only recently been determined to be clinically relevant (1988). Unlike other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, it is more aggressive, carrying a greater potential for tissue destruction. In pediatrics, the organism is uncommon, poorly described, and generally pan-susceptible. Described herein is the presentation and management of this unusual organism in a pediatric setting.

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