An Ineffective Differential Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis and Rheumatic Heart Disease after Streptococcal Skin and Soft Tissue Infection

We herein report the case of a 68-year-old woman with a skin and soft tissue infection at her extremities. The blood culture results were positive for Streptococcus pyogenes, and we started treatment using ampicillin and clindamycin, although subsequent auscultation revealed a new-onset heart murmur...

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I publikationen:Intern Med
Huvudupphovsmän: Suzuki, Tetsuya, Mawatari, Momoko, Iizuka, Toshihiko, Amano, Tatsuya, Kutsuna, Satoshi, Fujiya, Yoshihiro, Takeshita, Nozomi, Hayakawa, Kayoko, Ohmagari, Norio
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5635315/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28794364
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8411-16
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