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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2356-2357, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2356-2357.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Bacteremia by Dermabacter hominis, a Rare Pathogen

José Luis Gómez-Garcés,1,* Jesús Oteo,1 Guadalupe García,1 Belén Aracil,1 Juan Ignacio Alós,1 and Guido Funke2

Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital de Mostoles, Madrid, Spain,1 and Department of Medical Microbiology, Gärtner and Colleagues Labs, Weingarten, Germany2

Received 27 November 2000/Returned for modification 22 January 2001/Accepted 28 March 2001

Dermabacter hominis is a gram-positive, catalase-positive, glucose-fermenting rod, which, as it grows forms small greyish-white colonies with a characteristic pungent odor. Previously known as coryneform Centers for Disease Control and Prevention groups 3 and 5, it was catalogued as D. hominis in 1994. Various strains isolated in blood cultures, abscesses, or wounds in the 1970s were retrospectively characterized in referral centers as D. hominis. In this report we describe two patients with severe underlying pathology who developed bacteremias by D. hominis within the context of their clinical pictures.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital de Mostoles, C/Rio Jucar s/n 28935 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain. Phone and fax: 34/916648750. E-mail: jlgarces{at}microb.net.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2356-2357, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2356-2357.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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