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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bothelo E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1392641 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20060201 2
A fastidious, gram-negative bacterium was isolated from the blood of a 51-year-old man who had acute infectious endocarditis (IE). Characterization of the organism through phenotypic and genotypic analyses revealed the causative role of Cardiobacterium valvarum. This is the third reported case of IE caused by C. valvarum. ...[more]