Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis

We report the first case of infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by Globicatella sanguinis in an 87-year-old Japanese woman with recurrent episodes of UTI. We identified the pathogen using the Rapid ID32 Strep system. Accurate identification of this infection is impo...

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Autores principales: Takahashi, Saeko, Xu, Chieko, Sakai, Tetsuya, Fujii, Kotaro, Nakamura, Morio
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Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.12.001
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author Takahashi, Saeko
Xu, Chieko
Sakai, Tetsuya
Fujii, Kotaro
Nakamura, Morio
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description We report the first case of infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by Globicatella sanguinis in an 87-year-old Japanese woman with recurrent episodes of UTI. We identified the pathogen using the Rapid ID32 Strep system. Accurate identification of this infection is important and essential for the effective antimicrobial coverage to this pathogen.
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spelling pubmed-57252092017-12-18 Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis Takahashi, Saeko Xu, Chieko Sakai, Tetsuya Fujii, Kotaro Nakamura, Morio IDCases Article We report the first case of infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by Globicatella sanguinis in an 87-year-old Japanese woman with recurrent episodes of UTI. We identified the pathogen using the Rapid ID32 Strep system. Accurate identification of this infection is important and essential for the effective antimicrobial coverage to this pathogen. Elsevier 2017-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5725209/ /pubmed/29255675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.12.001 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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Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis
title Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis
title_full Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis
title_fullStr Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis
title_full_unstemmed Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis
title_short Infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by Globicatella sanguinis
title_sort infective endocarditis following urinary tract infection caused by globicatella sanguinis
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5725209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.12.001
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