Rare Case of Community-Acquired Endocarditis Caused by Neisseria meningitidis Assessed by Clinical Metagenomics

The most common causes of infective endocarditis (IE) are Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and HACEK-related organisms. In 15–30% of the IE cases, standard blood cultures remain sterile. We aimed at identifying the causative agent of a blood-culture-negative IE by whole metagenome shotgu...

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Autores principales: Choutko, Vassili, Lazarevic, Vladimir, Gaïa, Nadia, Girard, Myriam, Renzi, Gesuele, Leo, Stefano, Keller, Peter M., Huber, Christoph, Schrenzel, Jacques
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Cardiovascular Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31448292
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00112

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