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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2001, p. 1678-1679, Vol. 39, No. 4
Department of Microbiology, University of
Leeds,1 and The General Infirmary at
Leeds,2 Leeds, United Kingdom
Received 26 October 2000/Returned for modification 16 December
2000/Accepted 27 January 2001
Enterococcus raffinosus is a rare isolate in
clinical specimens. A case of vertebral osteomyelitis caused by
E. raffinosus in an elderly patient is
described and confirms this organism to be an opportunistic human pathogen.
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.4.1678-1679.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Vertebral Osteomyelitis Caused by
Enterococcus raffinosus
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Microbiology, School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom LS2 9JT. Phone: (0)113 243 5634. Fax:
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