Streptococcus gallolyticus, Infective Endocarditis, and Colon Carcinoma: New Light on an Intriguing Coincidence
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Streptococcus gallolyticus, infective endocarditis, and colon carcinoma: new light on an intriguing coincidence.
The coincidence of infective endocarditis (IE) caused by the organism Streptococcus gallolyticus (subsp gallolyticus, also referred to as Streptococcus bovis biotype I) and colon carcinoma has piqued the interest of infectious disease clinicians since an association between enterococcal endocarditis and sigmoid carcinoma was first documented in 1951 [1]. For more than 5 decades, the association...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1537-6613,0022-1899
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiq170