Abstract
0196-4399/00 (see frontmatter) © 2010 Elsevier Clinical Microbiology Newsletter 32:1,2010 Introduction Members of the genusMoraxella are normal commensals of the human upper respiratory tract and are occasionally recovered from the skin and mucous membranes.Moraxella lacunata has been associated with human conjunctivitis and keratitis but rarely with invasive and serious infections (1). However, a few case reports have established that M. lacunata organisms cause invasive infections in humans, including infective endocarditis (IE) (1-3), septicemia, septic arthritis, spondylodiscitis, and meningitis (4). In this report, we describe a patient who, after receiving a tattoo, developedM. lacunata endocarditis with cardiovascular complications, resulting in valve replacement surgery. This is the first report in Latin America of M. lacunata-induced endocarditis confirmed by sequencing of the 16s rRNA gene directly from heart valve tissue.
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