Embolic Stroke and Meningitis Secondary to Staphylococcus lugdunensis Native Valve Endocarditis

Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus that leads to destructive infective endocarditis. The clinical course of S. lugdunensis endocarditis is usually aggressive with a high mortality rate compared to endocarditis caused by other coagulase-negative staphylococcal species....

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Autores principales: AlDhaleei, Wafa Ali, Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth, Aldoghaither, Rabia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7910262
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author AlDhaleei, Wafa Ali
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description Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus that leads to destructive infective endocarditis. The clinical course of S. lugdunensis endocarditis is usually aggressive with a high mortality rate compared to endocarditis caused by other coagulase-negative staphylococcal species. Despite that, it is usually sensitive to Penicillin G, and surgical intervention is sometimes warranted. Here, we report a case of S. lugdunensis endocarditis complicated by both embolic stroke and meningitis.
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spelling pubmed-65120692019-06-10 Embolic Stroke and Meningitis Secondary to Staphylococcus lugdunensis Native Valve Endocarditis AlDhaleei, Wafa Ali Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth Aldoghaither, Rabia Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococcus that leads to destructive infective endocarditis. The clinical course of S. lugdunensis endocarditis is usually aggressive with a high mortality rate compared to endocarditis caused by other coagulase-negative staphylococcal species. Despite that, it is usually sensitive to Penicillin G, and surgical intervention is sometimes warranted. Here, we report a case of S. lugdunensis endocarditis complicated by both embolic stroke and meningitis. Hindawi 2019-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6512069/ /pubmed/31183228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7910262 Text en Copyright © 2019 Wafa Ali AlDhaleei et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Embolic Stroke and Meningitis Secondary to Staphylococcus lugdunensis Native Valve Endocarditis
title_fullStr Embolic Stroke and Meningitis Secondary to Staphylococcus lugdunensis Native Valve Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Embolic Stroke and Meningitis Secondary to Staphylococcus lugdunensis Native Valve Endocarditis
title_short Embolic Stroke and Meningitis Secondary to Staphylococcus lugdunensis Native Valve Endocarditis
title_sort embolic stroke and meningitis secondary to staphylococcus lugdunensis native valve endocarditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512069/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7910262
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