Streptococcus pluranimalium infective endocarditis and brain abscess

Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardium of the heart typically seen in individuals with underlying risk factors. We report a rare case of Streptococcus pluranimalium bacteremia causing infective endocarditis and brain abscess. Only 3 cases were reported in the literature on infecti...

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Autores principales: Duriseti, Parikshit, Fleisher, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6614752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00587
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description Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardium of the heart typically seen in individuals with underlying risk factors. We report a rare case of Streptococcus pluranimalium bacteremia causing infective endocarditis and brain abscess. Only 3 cases were reported in the literature on infective endocarditis in patients secondary to S. pluranimalium.
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spelling pubmed-66147522019-07-22 Streptococcus pluranimalium infective endocarditis and brain abscess Duriseti, Parikshit Fleisher, Jorge IDCases Article Infective endocarditis is an infection of the endocardium of the heart typically seen in individuals with underlying risk factors. We report a rare case of Streptococcus pluranimalium bacteremia causing infective endocarditis and brain abscess. Only 3 cases were reported in the literature on infective endocarditis in patients secondary to S. pluranimalium. Elsevier 2019-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6614752/ /pubmed/31334031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00587 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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