Teeth, Streptococcus Viridans, and Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

An unusual strain of streptococcus isolated from subacute bacterial endocarditis.

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...

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...

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...

Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

We describe a man aged 42 years with mitral valve regurgitation who suffered from subacute bacterial endocarditis caused by Streptococcus morbillorum. The clinical picture began with a toxic syndrome. Five months later, the patient had an embolic episode and a right rostral pontine stroke, which was followed a few days later by an adversive focal seizure on the right. Despite antibiotic treatme...