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Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot
Infective endocarditis is often caused by bacterial pathogens and can affect native and prosthetic tissue. Common pathogens in pediatric patients include Staphylococcus aureus, viridans group streptococci, enterococcal species and coagulase-negative staphylococci, though culture-negative cases are n...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6397990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915201 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2019.7872 |
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author | III, Bradford Becken Kilgore, Jacob Thompson, Elizabeth Moody, M. Anthony |
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description | Infective endocarditis is often caused by bacterial pathogens and can affect native and prosthetic tissue. Common pathogens in pediatric patients include Staphylococcus aureus, viridans group streptococci, enterococcal species and coagulase-negative staphylococci, though culture-negative cases are not uncommon. Coagulase-negative staphylococci present a conundrum to clinicians due to the potential of culture contamination. While Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus, it is an emerging cardiotropic pathogen that presents similarly to Staphylococcus aureus. Here we report a case of a child with repaired tetralogy of Fallot found to have right-sided infective endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus lugdunensis. |
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spelling | pubmed-63979902019-03-26 Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot III, Bradford Becken Kilgore, Jacob Thompson, Elizabeth Moody, M. Anthony Infect Dis Rep Case Report Infective endocarditis is often caused by bacterial pathogens and can affect native and prosthetic tissue. Common pathogens in pediatric patients include Staphylococcus aureus, viridans group streptococci, enterococcal species and coagulase-negative staphylococci, though culture-negative cases are not uncommon. Coagulase-negative staphylococci present a conundrum to clinicians due to the potential of culture contamination. While Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus, it is an emerging cardiotropic pathogen that presents similarly to Staphylococcus aureus. Here we report a case of a child with repaired tetralogy of Fallot found to have right-sided infective endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus lugdunensis. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6397990/ /pubmed/30915201 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2019.7872 Text en ©Copyright B. Becken III et al., 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report III, Bradford Becken Kilgore, Jacob Thompson, Elizabeth Moody, M. Anthony Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot |
title | Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot |
title_full | Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot |
title_fullStr | Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot |
title_full_unstemmed | Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot |
title_short | Right-sided endocarditis from Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot |
title_sort | right-sided endocarditis from staphylococcus lugdunensis in a patient with tetralogy of fallot |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6397990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915201 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/idr.2019.7872 |
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