Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis caused by HACEK Organisms: a Case Report and Systematic Review of the Literature

HACEK is a rare cause of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). We describe 42-year-old male patient who presented with Aggregatibacter aphrophilus PVE and cerebral infarct. A. aphrophilus was isolated from his blood cultures as the sole pathogen, which was confirmed by subsequent 16S rRNA sequencing....

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Autores principales: Choi, Ha Na, Park, Ki-Ho, Park, Soyoung, Kim, Jae-Min, Kang, Hyun Joon, Park, Jae Hun, Lee, Mi Suk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28608662
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2017.49.4.282

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28608662
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2017.49.4.282

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