Korean Journal of Clinical Pathology  2002;22(2):105-108

A Case of Stomatococcus mucilaginosus Septicemia in a Neutropenic Patient.

Jeong Don CHAE 1 ; Sook Ja PARK ; Duck Hee KIM ; Byung Yoon BAIK ; Mi Na KIM

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Keywords

Stomatococcus mucilaginosus; Septicemia; Chronic myelogenous leukemia

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Stomatococcus mucilaginosus is a Gram-positive coccus normally found in the oropharynx and upper respiratory tract. Recently, S. mucilaginosus has been increasingly reported to cause seri-ous infections in immunocompromised patients. A 42-year-old male patient with chronic myeloge-nous leukemia developed the clinical signs and symptoms of septicemia in the state of neutropenia due to the failure of a bone marrow transplant. The blood cultures revealed Gram-positive cocci in three sets of aerobic blood culture bottles. The bacteria were identified as S. mucilaginosus by an API STAPH Identification Panel (bioMerieux SA, Marcy 1 'Etoile, France). The patient was cured bacteriologically with a vancomycin treatment for 20 days. Here we report the first case of S. mucilaginosus septicemia in Korea.