Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis

Infective endocarditis is an uncommon heart infection, typically involving heart valves. Abiotrophia defectiva is a rare cause of endocarditis, typically found within the GI tract, and is usually difficult to isolate and requires specialized media. We report a case of Abiotrophia defectiva endocardi...

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Autores principales: Lancaster, Ian, Patel, Deep, Tamboli, Cyrus, Chun, Patricia, Sethi, Vikas, Namey, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8923800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35299935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7050257
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author Lancaster, Ian
Patel, Deep
Tamboli, Cyrus
Chun, Patricia
Sethi, Vikas
Namey, Joseph
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description Infective endocarditis is an uncommon heart infection, typically involving heart valves. Abiotrophia defectiva is a rare cause of endocarditis, typically found within the GI tract, and is usually difficult to isolate and requires specialized media. We report a case of Abiotrophia defectiva endocarditis following a root canal.
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spelling pubmed-89238002022-03-16 Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis Lancaster, Ian Patel, Deep Tamboli, Cyrus Chun, Patricia Sethi, Vikas Namey, Joseph Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Infective endocarditis is an uncommon heart infection, typically involving heart valves. Abiotrophia defectiva is a rare cause of endocarditis, typically found within the GI tract, and is usually difficult to isolate and requires specialized media. We report a case of Abiotrophia defectiva endocarditis following a root canal. Hindawi 2022-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8923800/ /pubmed/35299935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7050257 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ian Lancaster et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis
title Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis
title_full Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis
title_fullStr Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis
title_short Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis
title_sort abiotrophia defectiva infective endocarditis: a rare and dangerous cause of endocarditis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8923800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35299935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7050257
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