First known case of Eperythrozoon endocarditis in China

Eperythrozoonosis is a zoonosis transmitted from animals to humans. It is caused by bacteria in the genus Eperythrozoon. These bacteria have a high infection rate and can cause varying degrees of damage. This is the first case report of infective endocarditis caused by Eperythrozoon. The patient had...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Junli, Zhang, Xiangyun, Wang, Heng, Zhou, Zhihui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31680586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060519875352
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description Eperythrozoonosis is a zoonosis transmitted from animals to humans. It is caused by bacteria in the genus Eperythrozoon. These bacteria have a high infection rate and can cause varying degrees of damage. This is the first case report of infective endocarditis caused by Eperythrozoon. The patient had a 30-day history of remittent fever accompanied by chills and progressive weakness and gradually recovered after 6 weeks of minocycline treatment.
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spelling pubmed-77832432021-01-13 First known case of Eperythrozoon endocarditis in China Zhang, Junli Zhang, Xiangyun Wang, Heng Zhou, Zhihui J Int Med Res Case Report Eperythrozoonosis is a zoonosis transmitted from animals to humans. It is caused by bacteria in the genus Eperythrozoon. These bacteria have a high infection rate and can cause varying degrees of damage. This is the first case report of infective endocarditis caused by Eperythrozoon. The patient had a 30-day history of remittent fever accompanied by chills and progressive weakness and gradually recovered after 6 weeks of minocycline treatment. SAGE Publications 2019-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7783243/ /pubmed/31680586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060519875352 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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