Culture-negative Infective Endocarditis of the Aortic Valve due to Aerococcus urinae: A Rare Aetiology

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 231-233

  Alozie, Anthony ^a   Yerebakan, Can ^a   Westphal, Bernd ^a   Steinhoff, Gustav ^a   Podbielski, Andreas ^b  

^a Heart Center Rostock   (Germany)

^b ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerococcus urinae; Aortic valve replacement; Endocarditis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; DIURETIC AGENT; DNA 16S; GENTAMICIN; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

AEROCOCCUS; AEROCOCCUS URINAE; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AEROCOCCUS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84858298030     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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