title: A case of endocarditis caused by Lactococcus garvieae and suggested methods for identification.
abstract: Lactococcus garvieae is a Gram-positive coccus that has morphological and biochemical similarities to enterococci. L. garvieae strains rare human pathogens, with only a few cases reported in the literature, mainly as a cause of infective endocarditis. L. garvieae is well known as a fish pathogen, and in some of the reported cases, the patients had a history of contact with raw fish. Some of the reported endocarditis patients had valvular damage as a predisposing condition. We report a case of L. garvieae endocarditis in a patient with no history of contact with raw fish and with history of valvular repair in an unaffected heart valve.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Cleveland Clinic Health System, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. marunavas@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Maria Eugenia
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Navas
authors.forename: Geraldine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Dalia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: El Bejjani
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D017045:Lactococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
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