Streptococcus sinensis: an emerging agent of infective endocarditis

1 Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital de Meaux, 77104 Meaux, France 2 Service de Microbiologie, Laboratoire Associé au Centre National de Référence des Streptocoques, Université Paris Descartes, Hôtel Dieu, AP-HP, 75181 Paris 04, France 3 Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital de Meaux, 77104 Meaux, France 4 Centre d'Identification Moléculaire des Bactéries, Unité de Biodiversité des Bactéries Pathogènes Emergentes, U 389 INSERM, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France Correspondence Frédéric Faibis f-faibis{at}ch-meaux.fr Received 23 July 2007 Accepted 3 December 2007 The identification by conventional methods of viridans streptococcal species, which are rarely encountered clinically, requires confirmation by genomic methods. We characterized a strain of Streptococcus sinensis responsible for infective endocarditis by sequencing both the 16S rRNA and the manganese-dependent superoxide dismutase genes. Abbreviations: IE, infective endocarditis. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of HDP 2005-0155 is EF371928.