Staphylococcus lugdunensis: an important cause of endocarditis
- 1 July 1993
- Vol. 101 (10), 802-804
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1699-0463.1993.tb00183.x
Abstract
Staphylococcus lugdunensis endocarditis was diagnosed in a 55-year-old woman maintained on chronic haemodialysis. S. lugdunensis was isolated from blood and a Gore-Tex graft fistula at admission, and vegetations with Gram-positive cocci were found on the mitral cusps at autopsy.Keywords
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