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Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis
Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) is a group of non-enterococcal group D Streptococci that colonizes both humans and animals. Due to gastrointestinal disease, they can switch in opportunistic pathogens passing through intestinal mucosal barrier and may cause bacteremia and di...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33996945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.648213 |
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author | Vinciguerra, Mattia Santamaria, Valeria Romiti, Silvia D'Abramo, Mizar Toto, Gianmarco De Bellis, Antonio Taliani, Gloria Sangiorgi, Giuseppe Greco, Ernesto |
author_facet | Vinciguerra, Mattia Santamaria, Valeria Romiti, Silvia D'Abramo, Mizar Toto, Gianmarco De Bellis, Antonio Taliani, Gloria Sangiorgi, Giuseppe Greco, Ernesto |
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description | Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) is a group of non-enterococcal group D Streptococci that colonizes both humans and animals. Due to gastrointestinal disease, they can switch in opportunistic pathogens passing through intestinal mucosal barrier and may cause bacteremia and distant organs damage. Despite infective endocarditis (IE), extra-cardiac manifestations of organs damage include osteoarticular infections, meningitis, and biliary infections among others; moreover, the association with colonic pathological lesions has been largely described. Streptococcus alactolyticus as a species included in SBSEC may share pathophysiological similarities, although it represents an extremely rare cause of distant organ infections, being reported in literature as causative agent of IE in only two other cases. We describe a case of 69-year-old male admitted to our institution due to mild–moderate dyspnea and fever, affected by cervico-brachialgia for 3 weeks. Streptococcus alactolyticus was identified as causative agent of IE on the mitral valve, causing severe regurgitation. |
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spelling | pubmed-81164842021-05-14 Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis Vinciguerra, Mattia Santamaria, Valeria Romiti, Silvia D'Abramo, Mizar Toto, Gianmarco De Bellis, Antonio Taliani, Gloria Sangiorgi, Giuseppe Greco, Ernesto Front Cardiovasc Med Cardiovascular Medicine Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) is a group of non-enterococcal group D Streptococci that colonizes both humans and animals. Due to gastrointestinal disease, they can switch in opportunistic pathogens passing through intestinal mucosal barrier and may cause bacteremia and distant organs damage. Despite infective endocarditis (IE), extra-cardiac manifestations of organs damage include osteoarticular infections, meningitis, and biliary infections among others; moreover, the association with colonic pathological lesions has been largely described. Streptococcus alactolyticus as a species included in SBSEC may share pathophysiological similarities, although it represents an extremely rare cause of distant organ infections, being reported in literature as causative agent of IE in only two other cases. We describe a case of 69-year-old male admitted to our institution due to mild–moderate dyspnea and fever, affected by cervico-brachialgia for 3 weeks. Streptococcus alactolyticus was identified as causative agent of IE on the mitral valve, causing severe regurgitation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8116484/ /pubmed/33996945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.648213 Text en Copyright © 2021 Vinciguerra, Santamaria, Romiti, D'Abramo, Toto, De Bellis, Taliani, Sangiorgi and Greco. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Cardiovascular Medicine Vinciguerra, Mattia Santamaria, Valeria Romiti, Silvia D'Abramo, Mizar Toto, Gianmarco De Bellis, Antonio Taliani, Gloria Sangiorgi, Giuseppe Greco, Ernesto Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis |
title | Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis |
title_full | Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis |
title_fullStr | Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis |
title_full_unstemmed | Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis |
title_short | Case Report: Streptococcus alactolyticus as a Rare Pathogen of Mitral Endocarditis |
title_sort | case report: streptococcus alactolyticus as a rare pathogen of mitral endocarditis |
topic | Cardiovascular Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33996945 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.648213 |
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