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Case Reports
. 2013 Aug;19(4):754-6.
doi: 10.1007/s10156-012-0492-6. Epub 2012 Oct 10.

Native-valve endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae, misidentified as polymicrobial gram-positive bacillus infection

Daisuke Takekoshi  1 , Omar Al-Heeti, Patrick Belvitch, Dean E Schraufnagel
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Native-valve endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae, misidentified as polymicrobial gram-positive bacillus infection

Daisuke Takekoshi et al. J Infect Chemother. 2013 Aug.

Abstract

Mycobacterium chelonae, a species of rapidly growing mycobacteria, may grow in routine blood culture media and stain as gram-positive bacilli, which may cause diagnostic confusion. A patient with native-valve endocarditis caused by M. chelonae, which was misidentified as various gram-positive bacilli, is presented.

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