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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 12 1995, 3335-3337, Vol 33, No. 12
Copyright © 1995 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Case report of Streptomyces endocarditis of a prosthetic aortic valve

SB Mossad, JW Tomford, R Stewart, NB Ratliff and GS Hall
Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA.

We describe the first case of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to a Streptomyces sp. The patient presented with fever, cutaneous embolic lesions, and bacteremia 3 months after aortic valve replacement. Treatment required valve replacement and a long course of parenteral imipenem.


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