Staphylococcus lugdunensis.
Open Access
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 44 (10), 873-874
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.44.10.873
Abstract
A fatal case of penicillin resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis endocarditis on a native valve damaged by rheumatic fever is described. A retrospective examination of 978 tube coagulase negative staphylococcal blood culture isolates was also performed to determine how often this species is isolated. None of the 978 isolates was identified as S lugdunensis. It is concluded that ornithine decarboxylase production is the only reliable method of identifying this species.Keywords
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