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Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science 38:401-404 (2008)
© 2008 Association of Clinical Scientists

Case Report

Staphylococcus gallinarum Bacteremia in a Patient with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection

Daojun Yu1, Yueming Chen1, Yunfeng Pan2, Haijing Li3, Melinda A. McCormac4 and Yi-Wei Tang3,4
1 Departments of Clinical Laboratories and 2 Internal Medicine, Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China; 3 Departments of Medicine and 4 Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Address correspondence to Daojun Yu, M.D., Department of Clinical Laboratories, Hangzhou First People’s Hospital, Hangzhou, China; tel 86 571 8706 5701; fax 86 571 8791 4773; e-mail yudaojun98{at}163.com; and Yi-Wei Tang, M.D., Ph.D., Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Hospital, 4605 TVC, Nashville, TN 37232-5310, USA; tel 615 322 2035; fax 615 343 8420; e-mail yiwei.tang{at}vanderbilt.edu.

An unusual staphylococcal isolate was recovered from blood cultures in a patient with chronic hepatitis B virus infection, who presented with low grade fever accompanied by increased upper abdominal pain, nausea and weakness. The isolate was identified as Staphylococcus gallinarum based on biochemical characteristics and 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses.

Keywords: Staphylococcus gallinarum, bacteremia, 16S rRNA






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