Spontaneous endocarditis caused by rapidly growing non-tuberculous Mycobacterium chelonae in an immunocompetent patient with rheumatic heart disease

Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 254-256

  Jagadeesan, Naveena ^a   Patra, Soumya ^a   Singh, Ajit Pal ^a   Nagesh, Chamrajnagar Mahadevappa ^a   Reddy, Babu ^a   Badnur, Srinivas C ^a   Nanjappa, Manjunath Cholenahally ^a  

^a SRI JAYADEVA INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCES AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Endocarditis; Mycobacterium chelonae; Non tuberculous mycobacteria; Rheumatic heart disease

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOEMBOLIC STROKE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84896316731     PISSN: 09753583     EISSN: 09762833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcdr.2013.06.003     Document Type: Article

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