Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis: A Case Report and Literature Review

A 47-year-old male with no significant medical history was hospitalized for bacteremia and diagnosed with endocarditis. The organism isolated was a Gram-negative bacillus—Sphingomonas paucimobilis. There are only a few reported cases of endocarditis caused by S. paucimobilis, and to our knowledge, t...

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Autores principales: Rognrud, Kara, Diaz, Andrew M., Hill, Collin, Kershaw, Melissa A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7569439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33101743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7185834
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description A 47-year-old male with no significant medical history was hospitalized for bacteremia and diagnosed with endocarditis. The organism isolated was a Gram-negative bacillus—Sphingomonas paucimobilis. There are only a few reported cases of endocarditis caused by S. paucimobilis, and to our knowledge, this is the first in the United States.
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spelling pubmed-75694392020-10-22 Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis: A Case Report and Literature Review Rognrud, Kara Diaz, Andrew M. Hill, Collin Kershaw, Melissa A. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report A 47-year-old male with no significant medical history was hospitalized for bacteremia and diagnosed with endocarditis. The organism isolated was a Gram-negative bacillus—Sphingomonas paucimobilis. There are only a few reported cases of endocarditis caused by S. paucimobilis, and to our knowledge, this is the first in the United States. Hindawi 2020-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7569439/ /pubmed/33101743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7185834 Text en Copyright © 2020 Kara Rognrud et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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