Streptococcus tigurinus, a novel member of the Streptococcus mitis group, causes invasive infections

A Zbinden, NJ Mueller, PE Tarr, G Eich… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
tigurinus, we identified a novel pathogen associated with serious invasive infections. S.
tigurinus was first documented as the causative agent in multiple blood cultures and aortic valve …

The novel species Streptococcus tigurinus and its association with oral infection

A Zbinden, N Bostanci, GN Belibasakis - Virulence, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Streptococcus tigurinus is a novel species of viridans streptococci, shown to cause severe
invasive infections such … tigurinus belongs to the Streptococcus mitis group and is most closely …

Clinical significance and characterization of Streptococcus tigurinus isolates in an adult population

L Bourassa, JE Clarridge III - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
tigurinus in the human oral cavity and the role of oral S. tigurinus in causing invasive
infectiontigurinus can cause severe, invasive infection and enlarges the spectrum of disease …

Bacteremia due to Streptococcus tigurinus: a case report and literature review

J Hirai, D Sakanashi, M Hagihara, S Haranaga… - Journal of Infection and …, 2016 - Elsevier
… , allows accurate identification of Streptococcus species, which include phenotypically …
We report a case of bacteremia due to Streptococcus tigurinus, identified by 16S rRNA, in a …

Streptococcus tigurinus is highly virulent in a rat model of experimental endocarditis

TR Veloso, A Zbinden, F Andreoni, M Giddey… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Streptococcus tigurinus is responsible for systemic infections in humans including infective
endocarditis. We investigated whether the invasive trait of S. tigurinus in humans correlated …

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of Streptococcus tigurinus endocarditis

M Ercibengoa, MA Goenaga, C Ardanuy, I Grau… - BMC Infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Streptococcus tigurinus was recently described as a new streptococcal species within the
viridans group streptococcitigurinus isolated from patients with bacteraemias, to determine the …

Characterization of Streptococcus tigurinus small-colony variants causing prosthetic joint infection by comparative whole-genome analyses

A Zbinden, C Quiblier, D Hernandez… - Journal of clinical …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
… We describe for the first time SCVs of Streptococcus tigurinus in a patient with a prosthetic
joint infection. S. … mitis group and causes invasive infections. We sought to characterize S. …

A case of culture-negative endocarditis due to Streptococcus tigurinus

H Kanamori, R Kakuta, H Yano, T Suzuki, Y Gu… - Journal of Infection and …, 2015 - Elsevier
tigurinus has been described as causing invasive infections, including infective endocarditis…
, and prosthetic joint infection [6]. A study of S. tigurinus endocarditis in rats showed …

[PDF][PDF] The first case of concurrent infective endocarditis and spondylitis caused by Streptococcus tigurinus

B Kim, HJ Huh, DR Chung, WS Kim… - Annals of Laboratory …, 2015 - synapse.koreamed.org
tigurinus was reported to cause invasive infections such as endocarditis in both
immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients [2-6]. Whole-genome analysis of S. …

Frequent detection of Streptococcus tigurinus in the human oral microbial flora by a specific 16S rRNA gene real-time TaqMan PCR

A Zbinden, F Aras, R Zbinden, F Mouttet… - BMC microbiology, 2014 - Springer
… risk for invasive infections such as infective endocarditis [10]. Streptococcus tigurinus was
… pathogen associated with infective endocarditis, prosthetic joint infections or meningitis [11]-[…