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KMID : 0384119940140030325
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Korean Journal of Clinical Pathology
1994 Volume.14 No. 3 p.325 ~ p.332
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A Case of Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Cardiobacterium hominis
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Abstract
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Among fastidious gram-negative bacterial species, Cardiobacterium hominis is one of the few capnophilic, non-motile organism that is normal flora of nose and throat of healthy people. This organism is known to have very low virulence and its
disease
potential has been found to be limited to endocarditis. We noted 55 cases of C. hominis endocarditis or septicemia in the worldwide literature since 1964, when Slotnick and Dougherty named C. hominis for the previously unclassified pleomorphic
gram-negative bacilli that they had recovered from six patients with endocarditis. In Korea, only 1 cases reported in 1985 by Chong et al, proved to be late prosthetic valve endocarditis. Here, we report our experience with a case of subacute
bacterial
endocarditis caused by C. hominis in a 55-year-old male who was hospitalized because of dyspnea and chest pain about 6 months after teeth extraction. Six blood cultures yielded C. hominis and the isolated was susceptible to penicillin,
ampicillin,
carbenicillin, cephalothin, gentamicin, tobramycin, chloramphenicol and colistin by the disk diffusion method (Korean J Clin Pothol 1994 ; 14(3) 325~32)
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