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A rare cause of culture negative bioprosthetic valve endocarditis: a case report of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus infection

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of culture negative infective endocarditis (IEC) is reported as 2–7% though this figure may be as high as 70% in developing countries.(1) This higher rate will, at least in part, be due to reduced diagnostic facilities though some data suggests higher rates even when appro...

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Autores principales: Wassef, Nancy, Sarkar, David, Viswanathan, Girish, Hughes, Gareth Morgan, Salisbury, Thomas, Kuo, James, de Silva, Ravi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7898661/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33644660
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytab003