Vertebral Osteomyelitis Caused by Enterococcus raffinosus
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- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 39 (4), 1678-1679
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.39.4.1678-1679.2001
Abstract
Enterococcus raffinosus is a rare isolate in clinical specimens. A case of vertebral osteomyelitis caused by E. raffinosus in an elderly patient is described and confirms this organism to be an opportunistic human pathogen.Keywords
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