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Spondylodiskitis and endocarditis due to Streptococcus gordonii

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus gordonii is an infrequent cause of infective endocarditis (IE); associated spondylodiskitis has not yet been described in the literature. PURPOSE: We describe 2 patients who presented with new-onset, severe back pain; blood cultures revealed S. gordonii bacteremia, which le...

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Autores principales: Dadon, Ziv, Cohen, Assaf, Szterenlicht, Yael M., Assous, Marc V., Barzilay, Yair, Raveh-Brawer, David, Yinnon, Amos M., Munter, Gabriel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28978355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12941-017-0243-8