Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis

Aerococcus urinae is a gram-positive organism frequently found in the urinary tract. It is often mistaken for Streptococcus and Enterococcus based on its appearance. It commonly causes urinary tract infections but has rarely been associated with fatal infective endocarditis and sepsis. We present a...

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Autores principales: Feghaly, Julien, Rivas Rios, Jose, Ravi, Malleswari, Sattiraju, Srinivasan, Missov, Emil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9085717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35547451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23947
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author Feghaly, Julien
Rivas Rios, Jose
Ravi, Malleswari
Sattiraju, Srinivasan
Missov, Emil
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Rivas Rios, Jose
Ravi, Malleswari
Sattiraju, Srinivasan
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description Aerococcus urinae is a gram-positive organism frequently found in the urinary tract. It is often mistaken for Streptococcus and Enterococcus based on its appearance. It commonly causes urinary tract infections but has rarely been associated with fatal infective endocarditis and sepsis. We present a case of Aerococcus urinae infective endocarditis and discuss echocardiographic imaging findings and management approach. 
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spelling pubmed-90857172022-05-10 Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis Feghaly, Julien Rivas Rios, Jose Ravi, Malleswari Sattiraju, Srinivasan Missov, Emil Cureus Cardiology Aerococcus urinae is a gram-positive organism frequently found in the urinary tract. It is often mistaken for Streptococcus and Enterococcus based on its appearance. It commonly causes urinary tract infections but has rarely been associated with fatal infective endocarditis and sepsis. We present a case of Aerococcus urinae infective endocarditis and discuss echocardiographic imaging findings and management approach.  Cureus 2022-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9085717/ /pubmed/35547451 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23947 Text en Copyright © 2022, Feghaly et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Feghaly, Julien
Rivas Rios, Jose
Ravi, Malleswari
Sattiraju, Srinivasan
Missov, Emil
Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis
title Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis
title_full Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis
title_fullStr Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis
title_short Aerococcus urinae Infective Endocarditis
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topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9085717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35547451
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23947
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