Urosepticemia and fatal endocarditis caused by aerococcus-like organisms

Scand J Infect Dis. 1991;23(6):717-21. doi: 10.3109/00365549109024299.

Abstract

Two cases of invasive infections with aerococcus-like organisms (ALO) are presented: an 81-year-old man with fatal endocarditis and a 63-year-old man with urosepticemia. No antigenic relationship was found between ALO and Aerococcus viridans (NCTC 8251) in crossed immunoelectrophoretic assay.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / blood
  • Antigens, Bacterial / immunology
  • Bacteremia / microbiology*
  • Bacteriuria / microbiology*
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Immunoelectrophoresis, Two-Dimensional
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Streptococcaceae / immunology
  • Streptococcaceae / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial
  • Antigens, Bacterial