Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa with variable antibacterial resistance profiles: a diagnostic challenge

BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis (IE) caused by gram-negative bacilli is rare. However, the incidence of this severe infection is rising because of the increasing number of persons at risk, such as patients with immunosuppression or with cardiac implantable devices and prosthetic valves. The diagn...

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Autores principales: Gürtler, Nicolas, Osthoff, Michael, Rueter, Florian, Wüthrich, Daniel, Zimmerli, Lukas, Egli, Adrian, Bassetti, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580457/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31208366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4164-3

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