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Case report: A prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Legionella bozemanae in an immunocompetent patient
Extrapulmonary infections with Legionella species are rare, but important to acknowledge. We report a case of infective endocarditis (IE) with Legionella bozemanae in a 66-year-old immunocompetent man with an aortic homograft. The diagnosis was made by direct 16S rRNA gene amplification from valve m...
Autores principales: | Fraz, Mai Sasaki Aanensen, Dahle, Gry, Skaug, Kirsten Margrete, Jarraud, Sophie, Frye, Stephan, Bjørnholt, Jørgen Vildershøj, Nordøy, Ingvild |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669447/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.1055465 |
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