Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2003)

Small Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus and Pacemaker-related Infection

  • Harald Seifert,
  • Hilmar Wisplinghoff,
  • Petra Schnabel,
  • Christof von Eiff

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0910.030200
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 10
pp. 1316 – 1318

Abstract

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We describe the first known case of a device-related bloodstream infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants. Recurrent pacemaker-related bloodstream infection within a 7-month period illustrates the poor clinical and microbiologic response to prolonged antimicrobial therapy in a patient infected with this S. aureus subpopulation.

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