Lactococcus garvieae Endocarditis with Initial Presentation of Acute Cerebral Infarction in a Healthy Immunocompetent Man

Lactococcus garvieae is considered a rare, opportunistic pathogen with low virulence in human infection. There are only scattered case reports of L. garvieae-related infection in humans in the past 20 years. The majority of them were reported to be infective endocarditis. We present a case study of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2008, Vol.47(12), pp.1143-1146
Hauptverfasser:	Li, Wei-Kai, Chen, Yao-Shen, Wann, Shue-Ren, Liu, Yung-Ching, Tsai, Hung-Chin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Case reports Cerebral infarction Cerebral Infarction - diagnosis Diagnosis, Differential Endocarditis Endocarditis, Bacterial - complications Endocarditis, Bacterial - diagnosis Endocarditis, Bacterial - microbiology Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - complications Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - diagnosis Humans Immunocompetence Infection Lactococcus - pathogenicity Lactococcus garvieae Male Mitral Valve Insufficiency - diagnostic imaging Mitral Valve Insufficiency - microbiology Opportunist infection Paresis - etiology Pathogens Ultrasonography Virulence
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Zusammenfassung:	Lactococcus garvieae is considered a rare, opportunistic pathogen with low virulence in human infection. There are only scattered case reports of L. garvieae-related infection in humans in the past 20 years. The majority of them were reported to be infective endocarditis. We present a case study of a 41-year-old man with infective endocarditis caused by L. garvieae which is the first reported case with initial presentation as acute cerebral infarction.
ISSN:	0918-2918 1349-7235 1349-7235
DOI:	10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0795