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Enterococcus avium endocarditis in an infant with tetralogy of Fallot
1Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Staten Island University Hospital, 475 Seaview Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305, USA.
Pediatric Cardiology
|March 25, 1999
Abstract:
We report a case of infective endocarditis secondary to Enterococcus avium in a 1-year-old infant with tetralogy of Fallot and a Blalock-Taussig shunt. To our knowledge, this is the first case of E. avium endocarditis to be reported.