Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report

Vertebral osteomyelitis is an uncommon complication of infective endocarditis with the organism Streptococcus viridans being a rare cause of the condition. This case highlights an unusual presentation of Streptococcus viridans associated with infective endocarditis and pyogenic osteomyelitis in a pa...

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Autores principales: Choudhury, Maitrayee, Patel, Brijesh R, Patel, Minal, Bashir, Tariq
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918551
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6857
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author Choudhury, Maitrayee
Patel, Brijesh R
Patel, Minal
Bashir, Tariq
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description Vertebral osteomyelitis is an uncommon complication of infective endocarditis with the organism Streptococcus viridans being a rare cause of the condition. This case highlights an unusual presentation of Streptococcus viridans associated with infective endocarditis and pyogenic osteomyelitis in a patient following a dental procedure.
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spelling pubmed-27693212009-11-16 Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report Choudhury, Maitrayee Patel, Brijesh R Patel, Minal Bashir, Tariq Cases J Case report Vertebral osteomyelitis is an uncommon complication of infective endocarditis with the organism Streptococcus viridans being a rare cause of the condition. This case highlights an unusual presentation of Streptococcus viridans associated with infective endocarditis and pyogenic osteomyelitis in a patient following a dental procedure. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2769321/ /pubmed/19918551 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6857 Text en © 2009 Choudhury et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Choudhury, Maitrayee
Patel, Brijesh R
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Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
title Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
title_full Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
title_fullStr Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
title_short Streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
title_sort streptococcus viridans osteomyelitis and endocarditis following dental treatment: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918551
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-6857
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