Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae causing subacute bacterial endocarditis: case report.
This is the case report of a 13-yr-old European child from a boarding school at Herberton, on the Atherton Tableland, who developed subacute bacterial endocarditis, with 6 blood cultures at different times growing a non-toxigenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
D000293:Adolescent; D003353:Corynebacterium diphtheriae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans