First report of vaginal infection caused by Enterococcus raffinosus

1 Unità Operativa Complessa di Microbiologia e Virologia Clinica, Dipartimento di Medicina Trasfusionale, Ospedale Civile Spirito Santo , Pescara, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Ginecologia, Ospedale Clinicizzato Sant'Annunziata , Chieti, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Ematologia, Ospedale Civile Spirito Santo , Pescara, Italy 4 Laboratorio di Microbiologia Clinica, Centro Studi Invecchiamento (Ce.S.I.), Università degli Studi Gabriele D'Annunzio , Chieti, Italy Correspondence Vincenzo Savini vincsavi{at}yahoo.it Received 19 November 2007 Accepted 14 January 2008 The authors have reported the first case of vaginal infection caused by Enterococcus raffinosus . The latter is a rarely identified species, but some of the infections described in the literature should direct some attention to this, often opportunistic pathogen, and its emerging multidrug resistance.