Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India

Clostridium sordellii is a gram-positive anaerobic bacteria most commonly isolated from skin and soft tissue infection, penetrating injurious and intravenous drug abusers. The exotoxins produced by the bacteria are associated with toxic shock syndrome. We report here a first case of infective endoca...

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Autores principales: Chaudhry, Rama, Bahadur, Tej, Sagar, Tanu, Agrawal, Sonu Kumari, Arif, Nazneen, Choudhary, Shiv K., Verma, Nishant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8154338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34054241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1723750
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author Chaudhry, Rama
Bahadur, Tej
Sagar, Tanu
Agrawal, Sonu Kumari
Arif, Nazneen
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description Clostridium sordellii is a gram-positive anaerobic bacteria most commonly isolated from skin and soft tissue infection, penetrating injurious and intravenous drug abusers. The exotoxins produced by the bacteria are associated with toxic shock syndrome. We report here a first case of infective endocarditis due to C. sordellii from a female patient with ventricular septal defect from India.
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spelling pubmed-81543382021-05-28 Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India Chaudhry, Rama Bahadur, Tej Sagar, Tanu Agrawal, Sonu Kumari Arif, Nazneen Choudhary, Shiv K. Verma, Nishant J Lab Physicians Clostridium sordellii is a gram-positive anaerobic bacteria most commonly isolated from skin and soft tissue infection, penetrating injurious and intravenous drug abusers. The exotoxins produced by the bacteria are associated with toxic shock syndrome. We report here a first case of infective endocarditis due to C. sordellii from a female patient with ventricular septal defect from India. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021-03 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8154338/ /pubmed/34054241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1723750 Text en The Indian Association of Laboratory Physicians. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial-License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India
title Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India
title_full Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India
title_fullStr Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India
title_full_unstemmed Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India
title_short Infective Endocarditis Caused by C. sordellii: The First Case Report from India
title_sort infective endocarditis caused by c. sordellii: the first case report from india
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8154338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34054241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1723750
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