A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection

64 years old male presented fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, COVID-19 infection with bioprosthetic mitral in situ, cardio embolic stroke 2 years ago. The 2 D ECHO showed a vegetation indicating infective endocarditis. Three paired blood cultures grew Kytococcus schroeteri. The organism was sensitiv...

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Autores principales: Shah, Sweta, Thakkar, Pooja, Poojary, Sushima, Singhal, Tanu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9511116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36175197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.09.001
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description 64 years old male presented fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, COVID-19 infection with bioprosthetic mitral in situ, cardio embolic stroke 2 years ago. The 2 D ECHO showed a vegetation indicating infective endocarditis. Three paired blood cultures grew Kytococcus schroeteri. The organism was sensitive to Vancomycin, Teicoplanin, Gentamycin and Linezolid. Patient had multiorgan dysfunction which further deteriorated into failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation resulting into death of the patient.
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spelling pubmed-95111162022-09-26 A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection Shah, Sweta Thakkar, Pooja Poojary, Sushima Singhal, Tanu Indian J Med Microbiol Case Report 64 years old male presented fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, COVID-19 infection with bioprosthetic mitral in situ, cardio embolic stroke 2 years ago. The 2 D ECHO showed a vegetation indicating infective endocarditis. Three paired blood cultures grew Kytococcus schroeteri. The organism was sensitive to Vancomycin, Teicoplanin, Gentamycin and Linezolid. Patient had multiorgan dysfunction which further deteriorated into failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation resulting into death of the patient. Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9511116/ /pubmed/36175197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.09.001 Text en © 2022 Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Singhal, Tanu
A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
title A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
title_full A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
title_fullStr A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
title_full_unstemmed A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
title_short A case of Kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with COVID-19 infection
title_sort case of kytococcus schroeteri prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with covid-19 infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9511116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36175197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.09.001
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