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Bartonella henselae Infective Endocarditis Detected by a Prolonged Blood Culture

A 65-year-old Japanese man was admitted with a 4-month history of fatigue and exertional dyspnea. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a vegetation on the aortic valve and severe aortic regurgitation. Accordingly, infective endocarditis and heart failure were diagnosed. Although a blood culture w...

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Autores principales: Mito, Tsutomu, Hirota, Yusuke, Suzuki, Shingo, Noda, Kazutaka, Uehara, Takanori, Ohira, Yoshiyuki, Ikusaka, Masatomi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27746451