A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis

Infective endocarditis is a rare condition in children with normal hearts. We present here a case of previously healthy eleven-year-old girl with infective endocarditis and pulmonary septic emboli caused by a very rare bacterial etiology (Lactococcus lactis). Identification of this pathogen was only...

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Autores principales: Mansour, Bshara, Habib, Adib, Asli, Nazih, Geffen, Yuval, Miron, Dan, Elias, Nael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5059553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27774332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1024054
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author Mansour, Bshara
Habib, Adib
Asli, Nazih
Geffen, Yuval
Miron, Dan
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description Infective endocarditis is a rare condition in children with normal hearts. We present here a case of previously healthy eleven-year-old girl with infective endocarditis and pulmonary septic emboli caused by a very rare bacterial etiology (Lactococcus lactis). Identification of this pathogen was only made by polymerase chain reaction.
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spelling pubmed-50595532016-10-23 A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis Mansour, Bshara Habib, Adib Asli, Nazih Geffen, Yuval Miron, Dan Elias, Nael Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Infective endocarditis is a rare condition in children with normal hearts. We present here a case of previously healthy eleven-year-old girl with infective endocarditis and pulmonary septic emboli caused by a very rare bacterial etiology (Lactococcus lactis). Identification of this pathogen was only made by polymerase chain reaction. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5059553/ /pubmed/27774332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1024054 Text en Copyright © 2016 Bshara Mansour 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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A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis
title A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis
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title_fullStr A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis
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title_short A Case of Infective Endocarditis and Pulmonary Septic Emboli Caused by Lactococcus lactis
title_sort case of infective endocarditis and pulmonary septic emboli caused by lactococcus lactis
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