Endocarditis caused by Streptococcus canis: an emerging zoonosis?

Guillaume Lacave; Aymeric Coutard; Gilles Troché; Sandrine Augusto; Stéphanie Pons; Benjamin Zuber; Virginie Laurent; Marlène Amara; Brigitte Couzon; Jean-Pierre Bédos; Béatrice Pangon; David Grimaldi

doi:10.1007/s15010-015-0809-3

Endocarditis caused by Streptococcus canis: an emerging zoonosis?

Infection. 2016 Feb;44(1):111-4. doi: 10.1007/s15010-015-0809-3. Epub 2015 Jun 24.

Affiliations

¹ Medico-Surgical Intensive Care Department, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Site André Mignot, Le Chesnay Cedex, France. [email protected].
² Department of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Site André Mignot, Le Chesnay Cedex, France.
³ Medico-Surgical Intensive Care Department, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Site André Mignot, Le Chesnay Cedex, France.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Site André Mignot, Le Chesnay Cedex, France.

PMID: 26104727
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-015-0809-3

Abstract

We report a human case of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus canis. Identification was carried out from positive blood culture using mass spectrometry and SodA gene sequencing. S. canis related zoonotic invasive infections may have been previously underdiagnosed due to inadequate identification of group G Streptococcus species.

Keywords: Endocarditis; Group G streptococci; Streptococcus canis; Zoonosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Animals
Bacteriological Techniques
Blood / microbiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / diagnosis
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / microbiology
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Endocarditis, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
Humans
Male
Mass Spectrometry
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Streptococcal Infections / diagnosis*
Streptococcal Infections / microbiology*
Streptococcus / chemistry
Streptococcus / classification
Streptococcus / genetics
Streptococcus / isolation & purification*
Zoonoses / diagnosis*
Zoonoses / microbiology*