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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
Volume 342, Issue 3, Pages 257-258Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31821ffb9f
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Brevibacterium; Infective endocarditis; Native aortic valve
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- Microbiology Department and second Department of Internal Medicine, Asklepeion General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Although Brevibacterium species used to be considered as nonpathogenic microorganisms until recently, it seems that they can cause a wide variety of clinical diseases by acting mostly as opportunistic pathogens. The present case is the second reported case of infective endocarditis by Brevibacterium species; however, it is the first reported infected native aortic valve in an immunocompetent patient.
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