Cafardi John M, Haas Douglas, Lamarre Thomas, Feinberg Judith
The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Feb 18;7(4):ofaa063. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa063. eCollection 2020 Apr.
We report 2 cases of infective endocarditis in injection drug users due to infection. Although cardiac involvement is a frequent sequela of brucellosis and endocarditis is often seen with injection drug use, endocarditis in persons who inject drugs without zoonotic exposure has not been reported to date.
我们报告了2例注射吸毒者因感染导致的感染性心内膜炎病例。尽管心脏受累是布鲁氏菌病常见的后遗症,且心内膜炎常与注射吸毒有关,但迄今为止,尚未有关于无动物源性暴露的注射吸毒者发生心内膜炎的报道。