A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user

Non-HACEK Gram-negative bacilli account for only a small percentage of infective endocarditis cases globally. Among those, Klebsiella species account for only about 10% of cases and are most often health-care acquired. We present a rare case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in a young intravenous...

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Autores principales: Hauser, Naomi, Tanner, Elizabeth, Keuroghlian, Michael, Koduri, Lalitha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.03.003
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author Hauser, Naomi
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description Non-HACEK Gram-negative bacilli account for only a small percentage of infective endocarditis cases globally. Among those, Klebsiella species account for only about 10% of cases and are most often health-care acquired. We present a rare case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in a young intravenous drug user.
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spelling pubmed-55068612017-07-19 A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user Hauser, Naomi Tanner, Elizabeth Keuroghlian, Michael Koduri, Lalitha IDCases Case Report Non-HACEK Gram-negative bacilli account for only a small percentage of infective endocarditis cases globally. Among those, Klebsiella species account for only about 10% of cases and are most often health-care acquired. We present a rare case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in a young intravenous drug user. Elsevier 2017-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5506861/ /pubmed/28725559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.03.003 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user
title A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user
title_full A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user
title_fullStr A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user
title_full_unstemmed A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user
title_short A case of Klebsiella oxytoca endocarditis in an intravenous drug user
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506861/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.03.003
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