Native Valve Endocarditis Caused by Escherichia Coli

Thangam Menon; Nandhakumar Balakrishnan; Shanmugasundaram Somasundaram; Prabu Dhandapani

doi:10.7860/JCDR/2017/27201.10046

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research (Jun 2017)

Native Valve Endocarditis Caused by Escherichia Coli

Thangam Menon,
Nandhakumar Balakrishnan,
Shanmugasundaram Somasundaram,
Prabu Dhandapani

Affiliations

Thangam Menon: Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Nandhakumar Balakrishnan: Past Research Scholar, Department of Microbiology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Shanmugasundaram Somasundaram: Professor (Retd), Department of Cardiology, Madras Medical College and General Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Prabu Dhandapani: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/27201.10046
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 6
pp. DD05 – DD06

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Escherichia coli is a rare cause of infective endocarditis. This report describes a case of native valve endocarditis caused by Escherichia coli in a 58-year-old male renal transplant patient who had a concurrent urinary tract infection caused by the same organism. The patient was successfully treated with antibiotics and recovered without surgical intervention.

Published in Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

ISSN: 2249-782X (Print); 0973-709X (Online)
Publisher: JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
Country of publisher: India
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.jcdr.net/

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