Infective endocarditis

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Organism

Infective endocarditis

S. aureus (GPC), coagulase-negative staphylococci (GPC), viridans group streptococci (GPC in chains), enterococci (GPC), Abiotrophia sp., nutritionally deficient streptococcus (GPC), S. pneumoniae (GPC), other β-hemolytic streptococci (GPC), Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae (GPR), brucella (GVCB), other gram-negative bacilli, Coxiella burnetii, C. pneumoniae, bartonella, yeast.

Slow-growing fastidious GNRs: HACEK ( H. aphrophilus, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans , Cardiobacterium hominis , Eikenella corrodens , Kingella kingae) .

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Organism

Infective endocarditis

S. aureus (GPC), coagulase-negative staphylococci (GPC), viridans group streptococci (GPC in chains), enterococci (GPC), Abiotrophia sp., nutritionally deficient streptococcus (GPC), S. pneumoniae (GPC), other β-hemolytic streptococci (GPC), Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae (GPR), brucella (GVCB), other gram-negative bacilli, Coxiella burnetii, C. pneumoniae, bartonella, yeast.

Slow-growing fastidious GNRs: HACEK ( H. aphrophilus, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans , Cardiobacterium hominis , Eikenella corrodens , Kingella kingae) .

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