Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2005)

Veillonella montpellierensis Endocarditis

  • Clarisse Rovery,
  • Anne Etienne,
  • Cédric Foucault,
  • Pierre Berger,
  • Philippe Brouqui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1107.041361
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 7
pp. 1112 – 1114

Abstract

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Veillonella spp. rarely cause infections in humans. We report a case of Veillonella endocarditis documented by isolating a slow-growing, gram-negative microbe in blood cultures. This microbe was identified as the newly recognized species Veillonella montpellierensis (100% homology) by 16S RNA gene sequence analysis.

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