- 著者
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Yusuke Ainoda
Nozomi Takeshita
Ryota Hase
Takahiro Mikawa
Naoto Hosokawa
Ichiro Kawamura
Hanako Kurai
Masahiro Abe
Muneyoshi Kimura
Hideki Araoka
Takahiro Fujita
Kyoichi Totsuka
Kazuhisa Mezaki
Noritaka Sekiya
Norio Ohmagari
- 出版者
- National Institute of Infectious Diseases
- 雑誌
- Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISSN:13446304)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.70, no.4, pp.405-407, 2017 (Released:2017-07-24)
- 参考文献数
- 17
- 被引用文献数
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Staphylococcus lugdunensis (SL) is a bacterium with a highly pathogenicity than most other coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (CoNS). In Japan, data on this pathogen are sparse, and the current prevalence of SL bacteremia is unknown. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of SL in blood culture specimens in a prospective multicenter study across 5 facilities. A total of 3,284 patients had positive blood cultures, and 2,478 patients had bacteremia. Among the patients with bacteremia, 7 patients (0.28%) had SL bacteremia. A total of 281 patients had CoNS bacteremia, with SL accounting for 2.49% of these cases. Of the 7 patients with SL bacteremia, 1 patient (14.3%) had infective endocarditis, and 1 patient (14.3%) died within 30 days. In this study, SL resulted in the development of bacteremia in select patients. Clinicians in Japan should be aware of the prevalence of SL and the complications of SL bacteremia.