An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae

Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is an omnipresent commensal in the environment, studied for over a century. It is a zoonotic pathogen known to cause infections in animals and humans. Cases of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans have been classified into three distinct entities: localized skin infect...

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Autores principales: Karambelkar, Pranav, Rojulpote, Chaitanya, Borja, Austin J, Youngs, Cathrine, Bhattaru, Abhijit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32499982
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7942
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author Karambelkar, Pranav
Rojulpote, Chaitanya
Borja, Austin J
Youngs, Cathrine
Bhattaru, Abhijit
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description Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is an omnipresent commensal in the environment, studied for over a century. It is a zoonotic pathogen known to cause infections in animals and humans. Cases of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans have been classified into three distinct entities: localized skin infections, diffuse skin infections, and systemic organ involvement. This particular pathogen is an uncommon cause of endocarditis, with an affinity for the aortic valve. We present a case of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in a patient with involvement of the tricuspid valve.
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spelling pubmed-72665622020-06-03 An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae Karambelkar, Pranav Rojulpote, Chaitanya Borja, Austin J Youngs, Cathrine Bhattaru, Abhijit Cureus Cardiology Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is an omnipresent commensal in the environment, studied for over a century. It is a zoonotic pathogen known to cause infections in animals and humans. Cases of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans have been classified into three distinct entities: localized skin infections, diffuse skin infections, and systemic organ involvement. This particular pathogen is an uncommon cause of endocarditis, with an affinity for the aortic valve. We present a case of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in a patient with involvement of the tricuspid valve. Cureus 2020-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7266562/ /pubmed/32499982 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7942 Text en Copyright © 2020, Karambelkar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Karambelkar, Pranav
Rojulpote, Chaitanya
Borja, Austin J
Youngs, Cathrine
Bhattaru, Abhijit
An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae
title An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae
title_full An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae
title_fullStr An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae
title_short An Unusual Case of Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae
title_sort unusual case of tricuspid valve infective endocarditis caused by erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32499982
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7942
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