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Cardiobacterium hominis bioprosthetic mitral valve endocarditis presenting as septic arthritis
Anucha Apisarnthanarak1, Raymond M Johnson, Alan C Braverman
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. anucha@gwu.edu
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|February 1, 2002
Abstract:
We report an unusual case of Cardiobacterium hominis bioprosthetic valve endocarditis presenting as septic arthritis. This remarkable presentation had clinical features consistent with endocarditis generally associated with highly virulent pathogens. A literature search has failed to disclose a report of septic arthiritis as a manifestation of C. hominis endocarditis.