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Case Reports
. 2002 May;40(5):1845-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.5.1845-1847.2002.

Molecular diagnosis of Granulicatella elegans on the cardiac valve of a patient with culture-negative endocarditis

J P Casalta  1 , G Habib, B La Scola, M Drancourt, T Caus, D Raoult
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Molecular diagnosis of Granulicatella elegans on the cardiac valve of a patient with culture-negative endocarditis

J P Casalta et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2002 May.

Abstract

We herein report one case of culture-negative infectious endocarditis (IE) where the organism, Granulicatella elegans, was identified by molecular analysis using broad-range PCR primers complementary to the 16S rRNA gene on the removed valve. The results and utility of this method are discussed.

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FIG. 1.
Dendrogram representing phylogenetic relationships among members of the Streptococcaceae. The tree was derived from a 1,304-bp fragment of the 16S rRNA gene and was constructed by using the neighbor-joining method. Bootstrap values, expressed as a percentage of 1,000 replications, are given at the branching point.
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