Complication of nasal piercing by Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a case report and a review of literature

Body piercing, a growing trend especially in young people, is often complicated by severe infections. We present a case of acute bacterial endocarditis by Staphylococcus aureus complicated by multiple cerebral, kidney, spleen embolisms in a young girl, with no known previous cardiac abnormalities, f...

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Autores principales: Giuliana, Battagin, Loredana, Sarmati, Pasquale, Sordillo, Giovanna, Picchi, Giorgio, Calisti, Laura, Ceccarelli, Pellegrino, Antonio, Paolo, Nardi, Luigi, Chiariello, Massimo, Andreoni
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828432/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-37

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