title: Gemella morbillorum Endocarditis.
abstract: Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day of hospitalization G. morbillorum was identified. The transthoracic echogram revealed 14 × 10 mm vegetation on the aortic noncoronary cuspis. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, the case was referred to the clinic of cardiovascular surgery for valve surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ural
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sureyya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gul Yurtsever
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bahar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ormen
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nesrin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Turker
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Figen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kaptan
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sibel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: El
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Zehra Ilke
authors.initials: ZI
authors.lastname: Akyildiz
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nejat Ali
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Coskun