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Case Reports
. 2006 Feb;44(2):657-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.44.2.657-658.2006.

Endocarditis caused by Cardiobacterium valvarum

Elisabeth Bothelo  1 , Frédérique Gouriet, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Véronique Roux, Gilbert Habib, Franck Thuny, Dominique Metras, Didier Raoult, Jean-Paul Casalta
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Endocarditis caused by Cardiobacterium valvarum

Elisabeth Bothelo et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 Feb.

Abstract

A fastidious, gram-negative bacterium was isolated from the blood of a 51-year-old man who had acute infectious endocarditis (IE). Characterization of the organism through phenotypic and genotypic analyses revealed the causative role of Cardiobacterium valvarum. This is the third reported case of IE caused by C. valvarum.

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