GemellaSpecies Bacteremia and Stroke in an Elderly Patient with Respiratory Tract Infection

Abstract

Gemellaspecies are part of normal human flora. They are rarely associated with infections. As opportunistic pathogens, they can cause life-threatening infection in individuals with risk factors. We present an unusual case of an elderly patient, with no predisposing risk factors, who presented with respiratory tract infection andGemellaspecies bacteremia and suffered a stroke in the absence of features of endocarditis.