Ural Serap, Gul Yurtsever Sureyya, Ormen Bahar, Turker Nesrin, Kaptan Figen, El Sibel, Akyildiz Zehra Ilke, Coskun Nejat Ali
Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
Case Rep Infect Dis. 2014;2014:456471. doi: 10.1155/2014/456471. Epub 2014 Dec 7.
Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella morbillorum is a rare disease. In this report 67-year-old male patient with G. morbillorum endocarditis was presented. The patient was hospitalized as he had a fever of unknown origin and in the two of the three sets of blood cultures taken at the first day of hospitalization G. morbillorum was identified. The transthoracic echogram revealed 14 × 10 mm vegetation on the aortic noncoronary cuspis. After 4 weeks of antibiotic therapy, the case was referred to the clinic of cardiovascular surgery for valve surgery.
由麻疹孪生球菌引起的感染性心内膜炎是一种罕见疾病。本报告介绍了一名67岁患麻疹孪生球菌性心内膜炎的男性患者。该患者因不明原因发热入院，在入院第一天采集的三组血培养中有两组鉴定出麻疹孪生球菌。经胸超声心动图显示主动脉无冠瓣上有14×10毫米的赘生物。经过4周的抗生素治疗后，该病例被转诊至心血管外科诊所进行瓣膜手术。
