Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report

Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-negative staphylococci, and Enterococci sp. are the usual pathogens involved in nosocomial bacterial endocarditis. Corynebacterium species isolation in blood specimens is usually considered to be a contaminant. We present an interesting case of native mitral valve en...

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Autores principales: Marull, Jorge, Casares, Pablo A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-388
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description Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-negative staphylococci, and Enterococci sp. are the usual pathogens involved in nosocomial bacterial endocarditis. Corynebacterium species isolation in blood specimens is usually considered to be a contaminant. We present an interesting case of native mitral valve endocarditis in a 73 year old African American female that was diagnosed days after she was discharged from our institution. The infection was cleared with medical therapy alone.
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spelling pubmed-26149562009-01-08 Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report Marull, Jorge Casares, Pablo A Cases J Case Report Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-negative staphylococci, and Enterococci sp. are the usual pathogens involved in nosocomial bacterial endocarditis. Corynebacterium species isolation in blood specimens is usually considered to be a contaminant. We present an interesting case of native mitral valve endocarditis in a 73 year old African American female that was diagnosed days after she was discharged from our institution. The infection was cleared with medical therapy alone. BioMed Central 2008-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2614956/ /pubmed/19077258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-388 Text en Copyright © 2008 Marull and Casares; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
title Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
title_full Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
title_fullStr Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
title_short Nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
title_sort nosocomial valve endocarditis due to corynebacterium striatum: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614956/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19077258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-388
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