Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Pseudomonas luteola

BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas luteola has been recognized as an uncommon cause of bacteremia and of infections in patients with underlying medical disorders CASE PRESENTATION: We isolated P. luteola from blood cutures in a patient with prosthetic valve endocarditis developed 16 months after cardiac surger...

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Autores principales: Casalta, Jean-Paul, Fournier, Pierre-Edouard, Habib, Gilbert, Riberi, Alberto, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16221303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-5-82
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Pseudomonas luteola has been recognized as an uncommon cause of bacteremia and of infections in patients with underlying medical disorders CASE PRESENTATION: We isolated P. luteola from blood cutures in a patient with prosthetic valve endocarditis developed 16 months after cardiac surgery. CONCLUSION: P. luteola is a rare opportunistic agent, with a propensity of infecting valvular prostheses.

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