Infectious Disease Reports (Mar 2015)

Multi-drug resistant Helcococcus-like organism isolated from a chest abscess

Isabella Martin,
Joseph Schwartzman,
Kathryn Ruoff

Affiliations

Isabella Martin: Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Joseph Schwartzman: Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Kathryn Ruoff: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/idr.2015.5754
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1

Abstract

We report a case of multi-drug resistant Helcococcus-like organism isolated in pure culture from a chest abscess in a 31-year-old pregnant woman.

Helcococcus, antibiotics, resistance

Published in Infectious Disease Reports

ISSN: 2036-7430 (Print); 2036-7449 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Other systems of medicine
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/idr

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