Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report

Complications associated with Toxocara canis infection are rare. We present a case of a patient with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of an endomyocardial fibrosis caused by T canis. The epidemiological, pathological, and clinical features of this rare complication are described...

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Autores principales: Kuenzli, Esther, Labhardt, Niklaus, Balestra, Gianmarco, Weisser, Maja, Zellweger, Michael J., Blum, Johannes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw145
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author Kuenzli, Esther
Labhardt, Niklaus
Balestra, Gianmarco
Weisser, Maja
Zellweger, Michael J.
Blum, Johannes
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description Complications associated with Toxocara canis infection are rare. We present a case of a patient with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of an endomyocardial fibrosis caused by T canis. The epidemiological, pathological, and clinical features of this rare complication are described here.
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spelling pubmed-50847172016-10-31 Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report Kuenzli, Esther Labhardt, Niklaus Balestra, Gianmarco Weisser, Maja Zellweger, Michael J. Blum, Johannes Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Complications associated with Toxocara canis infection are rare. We present a case of a patient with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of an endomyocardial fibrosis caused by T canis. The epidemiological, pathological, and clinical features of this rare complication are described here. Oxford University Press 2016-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5084717/ /pubmed/27800525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw145 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
spellingShingle Brief Reports
Kuenzli, Esther
Labhardt, Niklaus
Balestra, Gianmarco
Weisser, Maja
Zellweger, Michael J.
Blum, Johannes
Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report
title Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report
title_full Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report
title_short Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis as a Complication of Toxocariasis-Associated Endomyocarditis With Fibrosis: A Case Report
title_sort staphylococcus aureus endocarditis as a complication of toxocariasis-associated endomyocarditis with fibrosis: a case report
topic Brief Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27800525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw145
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