Native-valve bacterial endocarditis caused by Lactococcus garvieae

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-94

  Vinh, Donald C ^a   Nichol, Kimberly A ^b   Rand, Fern ^b   Embil, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Endocarditis; Lactococcus garvieae

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RIBOSOME RNA; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS GARVIEAE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINE CULTURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; LACTOCOCCUS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 33748087801     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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