Mitro-aortic infective endocarditis produced by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae: Case report and review of the literature

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 320-324

  Nassar Mansur, Ibrahim Mohamed ^a,b   De La Llana, Ramiro ^a   Garrido, Pilar ^a   Martinez Sanz, Rafael ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; FOLLOW UP; MICROBIOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; ERYSIPELOTHRIX INFECTIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PENICILLIN G;

EID: 24344452072     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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