Brucella Endocarditis in Persons Who Inject Drugs

We report 2 cases of infective endocarditis in injection drug users due to Brucella infection. Although cardiac involvement is a frequent sequela of brucellosis and endocarditis is often seen with injection drug use, Brucella endocarditis in persons who inject drugs without zoonotic exposure has not...

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Autores principales: Cafardi, John M, Haas, Douglas, Lamarre, Thomas, Feinberg, Judith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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ID Cases
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7136016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32280723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa063
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description We report 2 cases of infective endocarditis in injection drug users due to Brucella infection. Although cardiac involvement is a frequent sequela of brucellosis and endocarditis is often seen with injection drug use, Brucella endocarditis in persons who inject drugs without zoonotic exposure has not been reported to date.
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spelling pubmed-71360162020-04-10 Brucella Endocarditis in Persons Who Inject Drugs Cafardi, John M Haas, Douglas Lamarre, Thomas Feinberg, Judith Open Forum Infect Dis ID Cases We report 2 cases of infective endocarditis in injection drug users due to Brucella infection. Although cardiac involvement is a frequent sequela of brucellosis and endocarditis is often seen with injection drug use, Brucella endocarditis in persons who inject drugs without zoonotic exposure has not been reported to date. Oxford University Press 2020-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7136016/ /pubmed/32280723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa063 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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