Lactococcus garvieae endocarditis with initial presentation of acute cerebral infarction in a healthy immunocompetent man

Wei Kai Li; Yao Shen Chen; Shue Ren Wann; Yung Ching Liu; Hung Chin Tsai

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0795

Lactococcus garvieae endocarditis with initial presentation of acute cerebral infarction in a healthy immunocompetent man

Wei Kai Li, Yao Shen Chen, Shue Ren Wann, Yung Ching Liu, Hung Chin Tsai

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Abstract

Lactococcus garvieae is considered a rare, opportunistic pathogen with low virulence in human infection. There are only scattered case reports of L. garvieae-related infection in humans in the past 20 years. The majority of them were reported to be infective endocarditis. We present a case study of a 41-year-old man with infective endocarditis caused by L. garvieae which is the first reported case with initial presentation as acute cerebral infarction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1143-1146
Number of pages	4
Journal	Internal Medicine
Volume	47
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0795
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cerebral infarction
Endocarditis
Lactococcus garvieae

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Internal Medicine
Medicine(all)

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Lactococcus garvieae endocarditis with initial presentation of acute cerebral infarction in a healthy immunocompetent man

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