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Rare case of Proteus mirabilis native mitral valve endocarditis in an immunocompromised patient

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Bacterial infective endocarditis caused by Proteus mirabilis is rare and there are few cases in the literature. The natural history and treatment of this disease is not as clear but presumed to be associated with complicated urinary tract ...
Lindsay G. Grossman   +5 more
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Abiotrophia Endocarditis in Children with No Underlying Heart Disease: A Rare but a Virulent Organism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Infective endocarditis is extremely rare in children with structurally normal hearts. The most common etiological agents are staphylococcal and streptococcal species.
Aggarwal, Sanjeev   +3 more
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Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis

open access: yesAutopsy and Case Reports, 2016
Death certificate inaccuracy is of major concern both in the public health domain and in individual health care, since it may yield untruthful data on the incidence, prevalence, and lethality of medical entities, and may hamper prophylactic measures ...
Rodrigo Tzovenos Starosta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Myocardium in Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis [PDF]

open access: yesCirculation, 1950
An evaluation of electrocardiographic tracings as an index of myocardial damage in survivors of subacute bacterial endocarditis was undertaken in a study of 76 fatal cases of the disease. Anatomic changes, present in all, included myocarditis, perivascular infiltration and fibrosis, Aschoff bodies, infarcts, and intravascular emboli ...
Ira Gore, Otto Saphir, Louis N. Katz
openaire   +3 more sources

A novel family of bacterial sialic acid binding adhesins? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
of Distinction at Nationwide Children's Annual Research RetreatThird place in Biomedical Sciences at the Denman Undergraduate Research ForumPlatelet binding is a critical step in the development of Infective Endocarditis (IE), an infection of the ...
Patel, Surina
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Antibiotic prophylaxis of infective endocarditis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Links between infective endocarditis (IE) and den-tal and other invasive procedures were first identified in the1920s, and the use of antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) to prevent IEwas first recommended by the American Heart Association in1955. Recognising the
Dayer, M.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

TREATMENT OF SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1954
Excerpt Subacute bacterial endocarditis has been treated with reasonable success for nine years.
Paul A. Bunn, Ellen T. Cook
openaire   +3 more sources

Infective Endocarditis Due to Eikenella corrodens: Case Report and Review of the Literature

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1990
Eikenella corrodens is an uncommon cause of bacterial endocarditis. In the 11 reported cases in the literature, the disease was associated with predisposing factors and was clinically indolent or subacute.
Ward D Patrick   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

GLOMERULAR LESIONS OF SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Medicine, 1912
1. In most cases of chronic or subacute bacterial endocarditis due to the endocarditis coccus (Streptococcus viridans), there exists a distinctive pathological lesion in some of the glomeruli due to bacterial emboli. 2.
G. Baehr
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Infective endocarditis: a consumptive disease among the elderly

open access: yesAutopsy and Case Reports, 2011
The clinical presentation of infective endocarditis varies according to the etiologic agent and the host. In elderly individuals, infective endocarditis can be difficult to diagnose and poses a challenge for the physician.
Vilma Takayasu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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