Streptococcus bovis bacteremia: unusual complications.
Streptococcus bovis bacteremia is known to be related to neoplastic lesions of the colon. We describe a patient with several complications of S bovis bacteremia and adenocarcinoma of the colon--endocarditis, spondylodiskitis, and splenic abscess. We believe this is the eighth known case of endocarditis and diskitis caused by S bovis and the third case of endocarditis and splenic abscess by S bovis in a patient with adenocarcinoma of the colon.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital São Joaquim, Real e Benemérita Sociedade Portuguesa de Beneficência, and the University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil.
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D000038:Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D000368:Aged; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D015299:Discitis / Q000382:microbiology; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007417:Intestinal Polyps / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D016985:Streptococcus bovis; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000382:microbiology