Multi-drug resistant helcococcus-like organism isolated from a chest abscess

Infect Dis Rep. 2015 Mar 16;7(1):5754. doi: 10.4081/idr.2015.5754. eCollection 2015 Feb 24.

Authors

Isabella Martin¹, Joseph Schwartzman¹, Kathryn Ruoff²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center , Lebanon, NH.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth College , Hanover, NH, USA.

Abstract

We report a case of multi-drug resistant Helcococcus-like organism isolated in pure culture from a chest abscess in a 31-year-old pregnant woman.

Keywords: Helcococcus; antibiotics; resistance.

Publication types

Case Reports