Infective endocarditis with Lactococcus garvieae in Japan: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Yukiko ^a   Naito, Toshio ^a   Kikuchi, Ken ^a   Amari, Yu ^a   Uehara, Yuki ^a   Isonuma, Hiroshi ^a   Hisaoka, Teruhiko ^a   Yoshida, Terutoyo ^b   Yaginuma, Kenji ^a   Takaya, Norihide ^a   Daida, Hiroyuki ^a   Hiramatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPSILOMETER TEST; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY INFARCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS GARVIEAE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALAISE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYALGIA; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INDURATION; SLURRED SPEECH; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 79961156971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-356     Document Type: Article

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