Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis

Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day o...

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Autores principales: Ural, Serap, Gul Yurtsever, Sureyya, Ormen, Bahar, Turker, Nesrin, Kaptan, Figen, El, Sibel, Akyildiz, Zehra Ilke, Coskun, Nejat Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25544914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/456471
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author Ural, Serap
Gul Yurtsever, Sureyya
Ormen, Bahar
Turker, Nesrin
Kaptan, Figen
El, Sibel
Akyildiz, Zehra Ilke
Coskun, Nejat Ali
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Gul Yurtsever, Sureyya
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Turker, Nesrin
Kaptan, Figen
El, Sibel
Akyildiz, Zehra Ilke
Coskun, Nejat Ali
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description Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day of hospitalization G. morbillorum was identified. The transthoracic echogram revealed 14 × 10 mm vegetation on the aortic noncoronary cuspis. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, the case was referred to the clinic of cardiovascular surgery for valve surgery.
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spelling pubmed-42735482014-12-28 Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis Ural, Serap Gul Yurtsever, Sureyya Ormen, Bahar Turker, Nesrin Kaptan, Figen El, Sibel Akyildiz, Zehra Ilke Coskun, Nejat Ali Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day of hospitalization G. morbillorum was identified. The transthoracic echogram revealed 14 × 10 mm vegetation on the aortic noncoronary cuspis. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, the case was referred to the clinic of cardiovascular surgery for valve surgery. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4273548/ /pubmed/25544914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/456471 Text en Copyright © 2014 Serap Ural et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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