A Case of Endocarditis Caused by Lactococcus garvieae and Suggested Methods for Identification
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A case of endocarditis caused by Lactococcus garvieae and suggested methods for identification.
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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.03400-12