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. 2014 Jun;63(Pt 6):892-895.
doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.070060-0. Epub 2014 Mar 28.

Association between HACEK bacteraemia and endocarditis

Haur Sen Yew  1 , Stephen T Chambers  2   1 , Sally A Roberts  3 , David J Holland  4 , Kylie A Julian  4 , Nigel J Raymond  5 , Justin Beardsley  5 , Kerry M Read  6 , David R Murdoch  2   1
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Association between HACEK bacteraemia and endocarditis

Haur Sen Yew et al. J Med Microbiol. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

We retrospectively examined medical records of 87 patients with bacteraemia caused by members of the HACEK group (Haemophilus parainfluenzae, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus, Cardiobacterium spp., Eikenella corrodens and Kingella spp.) to determine whether endocarditis was present, as defined by the Duke criteria. The overall positive predictive value (PPV) of HACEK bacteraemia for endocarditis was 60 %. The PPV varied with different HACEK species from 0 % (E. corrodens) to 100 % (A. actinomycetemcomitans).

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