Actinobacillus (Aggregatibacter) actinomycetemcomitans (HACEK) identified by PCR/16S rRNA sequence analysis from the heart valve in a patient with blood culture negative endocarditis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 981-983

  Westling, Katarina ^a   Vondracek, Martin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REOPERATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 57149089946     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802325922     Document Type: Article

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