Lifesaving Streptococcus bovis Surgical Site Infection

Lifesaving Streptococcus bovis Surgical Site Infection.

To the Editor—Surgical site infections (SSIs) are undesired and serious complications following spinal surgery. However, despite full adherence to various protocols for the reduction of SSI, they continue to occur. We report a case of nonpreventable SSI, which certainly complicated the patient’s medical management; however, it ultimately saved his life from invasive, metastatic cancer. This pat...

Prevention of surgical site infection.

Surgical site infections are a frequent cause of morbidity following surgical procedures. Gram-positive cocci, particularly staphylococci, cause many of these infections, although gram-negative organisms are also frequently involved. The risk of developing a surgical site infection is associated with a number of factors, including aspects of the operative procedure itself, such as wound classif...

Streptococcus bovis meningitis.

Surgical site infection surveillance after open gastrectomy and risk factors for surgical site infection.

Surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance was examined in gastric cancer patients who had undergone an open gastrectomy between 1997 and 2003 at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) reports and several studies have discussed SSI risk factors, but only open gastrectomy was analyzed by regression analysis. The purpose of this study was to e...

Nisin resistance of Streptococcus bovis.

The growth of Streptococcus bovis JB1 was initially inhibited by nisin (1 microM), and nisin caused a more than 3-log decrease in viability. However, some of the cells survived, and these nisin-resistant cells grew as rapidly as untreated ones. To see if the nisin resistance was merely a selection, nisin-sensitive cells were obtained from agar plates lacking nisin. Results indicated that virtua...