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Rare Bacteria Infecting the Heart and Affecting the Kidney of a Young Child

Rare bacteria can lead to infective endocarditis, which may lead to renal involvement as severe glomerulonephritis. We report our experience of a 12-year-old child who presented with infective endocarditis and blood culture-grown Gemella morbillorum - a rarely reported bacteria. The clinical picture...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Gurinder, Al Ali, Alyaa Saeed, Gulzar Bhatti, Namrata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29594142
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000484474