Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis
Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day o...
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| description | Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day of hospitalization G. morbillorum was identified. The transthoracic echogram revealed 14 × 10 mm vegetation on the aortic noncoronary cuspis. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, the case was referred to the clinic of cardiovascular surgery for valve surgery. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1e01dc62ce1445fb9ba3869ebc29817c2025-02-03T06:13:08ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332014-01-01201410.1155/2014/456471456471Gemella morbillorum EndocarditisSerap Ural0Sureyya Gul Yurtsever1Bahar Ormen2Nesrin Turker3Figen Kaptan4Sibel El5Zehra Ilke Akyildiz6Nejat Ali Coskun7Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Cardiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, TurkeyInfective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day of hospitalization G. morbillorum was identified. The transthoracic echogram revealed 14 × 10 mm vegetation on the aortic noncoronary cuspis. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, the case was referred to the clinic of cardiovascular surgery for valve surgery.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/456471 |
| spellingShingle | Serap Ural Sureyya Gul Yurtsever Bahar Ormen Nesrin Turker Figen Kaptan Sibel El Zehra Ilke Akyildiz Nejat Ali Coskun Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis |
| title_full | Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis |
| title_fullStr | Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis |
| title_short | Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis |
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| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/456471 |
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