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Case Reports
. 2011 Nov;49(11):4016-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00935-11. Epub 2011 Sep 21.

Aortic homograft endocarditis caused by Campylobacter jejuni

Sander Dinant  1 , Carolina A M Schurink, Jaap W Deckers, Juliëtte A Severin
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Case Reports

Aortic homograft endocarditis caused by Campylobacter jejuni

Sander Dinant et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Nov.

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Abstract

We report the first case of homograft endocarditis caused by Campylobacter jejuni, which was treated successfully with antibiotic therapy and valve replacement. To our knowledge, only two other cases of C. jejuni endocarditis, involving native valves, have been reported in the medical literature.

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