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Indirect immunofluorescence as a diagnostic tool in a prosthetic heart valve endocarditis due to actinobacillus
1Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Lund, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A late prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Staphylococcus epidermidis in a 72-year-old man is reported. A simple indirect immunofluorescence technique was used to confirm the etiological diagnosis. This test may be useful when diagnostic problems occur in infections with microorganisms of uncertain pathogenic importance.
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