Chronic pericarditis due to a streptomyces species.
Streptomyces species include a group of aerobic actinomycetes that are generally considered to be saprophytes. Effusoconstrictive pericarditis of mixed etiology developed in a previously healthy patient. The cause of the chronic pericarditis was a Streptomyces species.
D000328:Adult; D000332:Aerobiosis; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013302:Streptomyces