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Native valve endocarditis due to Enterococcus hirae
Claire Poyart1, Thierry Lambert, Philippe Morand
1Laboratoire Mixte Pasteur-Necker de Recherche sur les Streptocoques et Streptococcies, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, 75730 Paris Cedex 15, France. poyart@necker.fr
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|June 29, 2002
Abstract:
Enterococcus hirae is a rare isolate in clinical specimens. We describe a case of native aortic-valve endocarditis that was caused by Enterococcus hirae in a 72-year-old man. This is the first reported case of endocarditis due to this organism.