1. Native Valve Endocarditis Due to Enterococcus hirae
- Author
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Philippe Morand, Thierry Lambert, Gilles Quesne, Philippe Abassade, Yves Baudouy, Patrick Trieu-Cuot, and Claire Poyart
- Subjects
Male ,Microbiology (medical) ,Aortic valve ,Native Valve Endocarditis ,Heart Valve Diseases ,Case Report ,Endocarditis, Bacterial ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Microbiology ,Microscopy, Electron ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Enterococcus ,Enterococcus hirae ,Aortic Valve ,medicine ,Humans ,Endocarditis ,Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections ,Gram-positive bacterial infections ,Aged - Abstract
Enterococcus hirae is a rare isolate in clinical specimens. We describe a case of native aortic-valve endocarditis that was caused by Enterococcus hirae in a 72-year-old man. This is the first reported case of endocarditis due to this organism.
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- 2002