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Recovery of Anaerobic Bacteria from 3 Patients with Infection at a Pierced Body Site

Author(s) -

Itzhak Brook

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/320891

Subject(s) - prevotella , peptostreptococcus , bacteroides fragilis , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , anaerobic bacteria , obligate anaerobe , fusobacterium , umbilicus (mollusc) , fusobacteria , antimicrobial , bacteroides , bacteria , anaerobic exercise , surgery , antibiotics , biology , physiology , genetics , bacteroidetes , 16s ribosomal rna

We describe 3 adolescents who developed infections due to anaerobes at pierced body sites: the nipple, the umbilicus, and the nasal septum. Anaerobes (Prevotella intermedia and Peptostreptococcus anaerobius) were recovered from pure culture of specimens obtained from 1 patient with nipple infection and were mixed with aerobic bacteria in cultures of specimens obtained from 2 patients (Streptococcus aureus, Peptostreptococcus micros, and Prevotella melaninogenica were recovered from a patient with nasal septum infection, and Bacteroides fragilis and Enterococcus faecalis were recovered from a patient with umbilical infection). The infection resolved in all patients after removal of the ornaments and use of antimicrobial drug treatment.

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