Successful Treatment of Mycobacterium fortuitum Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: Case Report
Open Access
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 30 (3), 629-630
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313720
Abstract
To date, no cases of the successful treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum complex have been reported. To our knowledge, we report the first such case.Keywords
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