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Case Report Volume 7 Issue 5
First report of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in Oman
Wafa Nasser Al Tamtami, Fatma Al Yaquobi, Amina Al Jardani, Mohammed Al Riyami, Martin Cormican
Armed Forces Hospital, Department of Pathology, Discipline of Medical microbiology, Oman
School of Medicine, National Univeristy of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Royal Hospital, Oman
Central Public Health laboratory, Oman
Received: September 26, 2019 | Published: October 15, 2019
Citation: Tamtami WNAI, Yaquobi FAI, Jardani AAI, et al. First report of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in Oman. J Microbiol Exp. 2019;7(5):247-248. DOI: 10.15406/jmen.2019.07.00268
Abstract
A 38 year-old man with prosthetic mitral and tricuspid valves presented with fever and tachycardia. An organism isolated from aerobic cultures only was ultimately identified as Kytococcus schroeteri. The recognition of the organism as a pathogen is important because of intrinsic penicillin resistance. Patient management was complicated by refusal of surgical treatment.
Keywords: K. schroeteri, prosthetic mitral valve, gram-positive cocci, DNase, fatal infections
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