Infections related to Granulicatella adiacens: Report of two cases and review of literature

• Published in: Indian journal of medical microbiology Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 547 - 550
• Main Authors: Macin, S, Inkaya, A C, Tuncer, O, Unal, S, Akyon, Y
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Elsevier B.V 01.10.2016; Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Carnobacteriaceae - chemistry; Carnobacteriaceae - genetics; Carnobacteriaceae - isolation & purification; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - diagnosis; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology; Granulicatella adiacens; Humans; infection; Male; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation – time of flight mass spectrometry; Middle Aged; Ribotyping; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation – time of flight mass spectrometry; Granulicatella adiacens; infection; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation - time of flight mass spectrometry
• ISSN: 0255-0857; 1998-3646
• DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.195377

Infections due to nutritionally variant streptococci are diagnosed rarely due to difficulties encountered during identification and isolation. Mortality rate in these infections is high therefore appropriate supplemented media and reliable detection systems should be implemented to isolate these fastidious organisms. Here, we describe two cases of Granulicatella adiacens infections. All microbiologic identifications were made with MALDI-TOF Vitek MS (BioMerieux, France), and the results confirmed by 16S ribotyping.