Native valve Escherichia coli endocarditis following urosepsis
Gram-negative organisms are a rare cause of infective endocarditis. Escherichia coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infection and gram-negative septicemia involves endocardium rarely. In this case report, we describe infection of native mitral valve by E. coli following septicemia of urinar...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2013-01-01
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Series: | Indian Journal of Nephrology |
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Online Access: | http://www.indianjnephrol.org/article.asp?issn=0971-4065;year=2013;volume=23;issue=3;spage=232;epage=234;aulast=Rangarajan |