Endocarditis due to Lactobacillus rhamnosus in a patient with bicuspid aortic valve: Potential role for the consumption of probiotics?;Endocarditis por Lactobacillus rhamnosus en un paciente con válvula aórtica bicúspide: ¿implicación potencial del consumo de probióticos?

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 181-182

  Noreña, Iván ^a   Cabrera Marante, Oscar ^b   Fernández Ruiz, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; ENDOCARDITIS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALE; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 85018428891     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2017.03.021     Document Type: Letter

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