Two cases of S. lugdunensis Isolated from Blood and Venous Catheter.
- Author:
Hee Won MOON
1
;
Mi Ae LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ewha Womans University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. miae@ewha.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Staphylococcus lugdunensis;
Clumping factor
- MeSH:
Agglutination;
Catheters*;
Coagulase;
Gram-Positive Cocci;
Humans;
Latex;
Mannitol;
Penicillins;
Staphylococcus aureus;
Staphylococcus lugdunensis
- From:Korean Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2004;7(1):90-93
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a member of the coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) which has been associated with serious infections in humans. Species identification of S. lugdunensis isolates should be done but they may be misidentified as other CoNS species or Staphylococcus aureus due to positivity for clumping factor. We report the first two cases of catalase-positive and Gram positive cocci isolated from blood and venous catheter, which were positive for latex agglutination coagulase test but susceptible to penicillin, negative for tube coagulase test and negative acid production from mannitol and finally identified as S. lugdunensis.
