Native Valve Endocarditis due to Ralstonia pickettii: A Case Report and Literature Review

Ralstonia pickettii is a rare pathogen and even more rare in healthy individuals. Here we report a case of R. pickettii bacteremia leading to aortic valve abscess and complete heart block. To our knowledge this is the first case report of Ralstonia species causing infective endocarditis with perival...

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Autores principales: Orme, Joseph, Rivera-Bonilla, Tomas, Loli, Akil, Blattman, Negin N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/324675
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author Orme, Joseph
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description Ralstonia pickettii is a rare pathogen and even more rare in healthy individuals. Here we report a case of R. pickettii bacteremia leading to aortic valve abscess and complete heart block. To our knowledge this is the first case report of Ralstonia species causing infective endocarditis with perivalvular abscess.
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spelling pubmed-43062252015-02-03 Native Valve Endocarditis due to Ralstonia pickettii: A Case Report and Literature Review Orme, Joseph Rivera-Bonilla, Tomas Loli, Akil Blattman, Negin N. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Ralstonia pickettii is a rare pathogen and even more rare in healthy individuals. Here we report a case of R. pickettii bacteremia leading to aortic valve abscess and complete heart block. To our knowledge this is the first case report of Ralstonia species causing infective endocarditis with perivalvular abscess. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4306225/ /pubmed/25648998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/324675 Text en Copyright © 2015 Joseph Orme 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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title_full Native Valve Endocarditis due to Ralstonia pickettii: A Case Report and Literature Review
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title_sort native valve endocarditis due to ralstonia pickettii: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4306225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/324675
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