Infective endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli of a native mitral valve

Escherichia coli is a rare cause of infectious endocarditis. We report a clinical case of E. coli endocarditis of a native mitral valve in a young 26-year-old woman with a recurrent urinary tract infection who had a high fever for one week despite probabilistic treatment with amoxcillin-clavulanic a...

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Autores principales: Benaissa, E., Yasssine, Ben Lahlou, Chadli, M., Maleb, A., Elouennass, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01119
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author Benaissa, E.
Yasssine, Ben Lahlou
Chadli, M.
Maleb, A.
Elouennass, M.
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description Escherichia coli is a rare cause of infectious endocarditis. We report a clinical case of E. coli endocarditis of a native mitral valve in a young 26-year-old woman with a recurrent urinary tract infection who had a high fever for one week despite probabilistic treatment with amoxcillin-clavulanic acid 3 g per day. The patient was successfully treated with antibiotics and recovered without surgery.
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spelling pubmed-80653012021-04-27 Infective endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli of a native mitral valve Benaissa, E. Yasssine, Ben Lahlou Chadli, M. Maleb, A. Elouennass, M. IDCases Case Report Escherichia coli is a rare cause of infectious endocarditis. We report a clinical case of E. coli endocarditis of a native mitral valve in a young 26-year-old woman with a recurrent urinary tract infection who had a high fever for one week despite probabilistic treatment with amoxcillin-clavulanic acid 3 g per day. The patient was successfully treated with antibiotics and recovered without surgery. Elsevier 2021-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8065301/ /pubmed/33912390 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01119 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Infective endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli of a native mitral valve
title_full Infective endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli of a native mitral valve
title_fullStr Infective endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli of a native mitral valve
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title_short Infective endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli of a native mitral valve
title_sort infective endocarditis caused by escherichia coli of a native mitral valve
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912390
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01119
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