BACTERIOLOGIC STUDIES IN SUBACUTE STREPTOCOCCUS ENDOCARDITIS

Streptococcus pseudoporcinus subacute mitral valve endocarditis: A case report

This is a case of a patient with subacute Streptococcus pseudoporcinus endocarditis, who presented with subjective fever, weight loss, and mental status changes. Multiple blood cultures were positive for Streptococcus pseudoporcinus and echocardiogram revealed mitral valve vegetation. Antibiotics cleared his blood, but the patient underwent a mitral valve replacement. This article illustrates a...

An unusual strain of streptococcus isolated from subacute bacterial endocarditis.

Penicillin in Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

IN the autumn of 1944 a small committee was formed in Belfast to investigate the clinical applications of penicillin, and for various research projects special supplies of penicillin were received from the Medical Research Council of Great Britain. In February, 1945, the committee agreed to accept responsibility in Northern Ireland for a thorough clinical trial of penicillin in subacute bacteri...

Phagocytosis in Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

The opsonic properties of immune gammaG-globulins isolated from patients with chronic septicemic conditions, principally subacute bacterial endocarditis were studied. Opsonic capacity as well as complement-fixing properties of gamma-globulins appeared to be closely associated with integrity of Fc structures. Progressive pepsin digestion of immune gammaG-globulins, as monitored by successive los...

Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

F EVER in a patient with heart disease frequently indicates infection or infarction of either the heart or lung. However, the occurrence of infection and infarction concomitantly in the heart is, at least statistically, extremely uncommon. Only four cases' 3 have been reported in the literature of bacterial invasion of an acute myocardial infarction followed by abscess formation in the myocardi...