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SUBMITTER: Henriet SSV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9464071 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henriet Stefanie S V SSV Langereis Jeroen D JD Lo Stephanie W SW Bentley Stephen S Mesman Rob J RJ Fejzic Zina Z van Niftrik Laura L van Sorge Nina M NM Wertheim Heiman F L HFL de Jonge Marien I MI Cremers Amelieke J H AJH
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20220901 4
The Streptococcus pneumoniae capsule is regarded as indispensable in bacteremia. We report an infant with a ventricular septal defect and infective endocarditis caused by nontypeable S. pneumoniae. In-depth investigation confirmed a deficient capsule yet favored pneumococcal fitness for causing infective endocarditis, rather than a host immune disorder, as the cause of infective endocarditis in this case. ...[more]