title: Granulicatella adiacens, an unusual causative agent in chronic dacryocystitis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Granulicatella adiacens, a recent taxonomic addition, is a commensal organism of the oral, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts and is rarely encountered in the orbit and eye.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present a 46-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic dacryocystitis who underwent an external dacryocystorhinostomy and was found to have G. adiacens.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is an unusual causative organism isolated in the nasolacrimal system and, to our knowledge, the first reported case of chronic dacryocystitis associated with G. adiacens.
authors.affiliation: Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA.
authors.forename: Cristy A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ku
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, West Virginia University Eye Institute, One Stadium Drive, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA.
authors.forename: Blake
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Forcina
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA.
authors.forename: Paul Rocco
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: LaSala
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, West Virginia University Eye Institute, One Stadium Drive, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nguyen
keywords: Chronic; Dacryocystitis; Dacryocystorhinostomy; Granulicatella adiacens; Nasolacrimal duct obstruction