Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening

Streptococcus agalactiae (S.agalactiae) is known to cause invasive infections in pregnant women, newborns, and immunosuppressed patients. It is an uncommon but life-threatening case of infective endocarditis in middle-aged otherwise healthy adults. We present a case of a patient with life-threatenin...

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Autores principales: Ya'qoub, Lina, Rehan, Lyna, Parikh, Shailja, Enriquez, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034954
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2632
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author Ya'qoub, Lina
Rehan, Lyna
Parikh, Shailja
Enriquez, Jonathan
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description Streptococcus agalactiae (S.agalactiae) is known to cause invasive infections in pregnant women, newborns, and immunosuppressed patients. It is an uncommon but life-threatening case of infective endocarditis in middle-aged otherwise healthy adults. We present a case of a patient with life-threatening infective endocaritis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae, who passed away despite medical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-60478352018-07-20 Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening Ya'qoub, Lina Rehan, Lyna Parikh, Shailja Enriquez, Jonathan Cureus Cardiology Streptococcus agalactiae (S.agalactiae) is known to cause invasive infections in pregnant women, newborns, and immunosuppressed patients. It is an uncommon but life-threatening case of infective endocarditis in middle-aged otherwise healthy adults. We present a case of a patient with life-threatening infective endocaritis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae, who passed away despite medical treatment. Cureus 2018-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6047835/ /pubmed/30034954 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2632 Text en Copyright © 2018, Ya'qoub et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening
title Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening
title_full Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening
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title_full_unstemmed Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening
title_short Streptococcus Agalactiae Infective Endocarditis in a Healthy Middle-aged Man: Uncommon but Life-threatening
title_sort streptococcus agalactiae infective endocarditis in a healthy middle-aged man: uncommon but life-threatening
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2632
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