Actinomyces naeslundii: An Uncommon Cause of Endocarditis

Actinomyces rarely causes endocarditis with 25 well-described cases reported in the literature in the past 75 years. We present a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) caused by Actinomyces naeslundii. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of endocarditis due to this org...

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Autores principales: Cortes, Christopher D., Urban, Carl, Turett, Glenn
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/PMC4677190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26697243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/602462
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description Actinomyces rarely causes endocarditis with 25 well-described cases reported in the literature in the past 75 years. We present a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) caused by Actinomyces naeslundii. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of endocarditis due to this organism and the second report of PVE caused by Actinomyces.
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spelling pubmed-46771902015-12-22 Actinomyces naeslundii: An Uncommon Cause of Endocarditis Cortes, Christopher D. Urban, Carl Turett, Glenn Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Actinomyces rarely causes endocarditis with 25 well-described cases reported in the literature in the past 75 years. We present a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) caused by Actinomyces naeslundii. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of endocarditis due to this organism and the second report of PVE caused by Actinomyces. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4677190/ /pubmed/26697243 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/602462 Text en Copyright © 2015 Christopher D. Cortes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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_fullStr Actinomyces naeslundii: An Uncommon Cause of Endocarditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677190/
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