Publication: Infective endocarditis case due to streptococcus parasanguinis presented with spondylodiscitis
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2016-01-01
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Hakyemez, Ismail Necati
Durdu, BÜLENT
Okay, GÜLAY
GULTEPE, Bilge
Bolukcu, SİBEL
ASLAN, Turan
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Streptococcus parasanguinis is a natural member of oral flora. It is an opportunistic pathogen, and rarely cause systemic infections due to it-s low virulence. Subacute infective endocarditis may present with various clinical manifestations (eg., spondylodiscitis). A sixty-five years old male patient from Northern Iraq has referred to our emergency service with high fever, weight loss, back pain and inability to walk. The patient was a veterinarian. He was operated three years ago for colonic carcinoma and irradiated. In magnetic resonance imaging, spondylodiscitis was detected localized in lumbar 1-2 region. Transthorasic echocardiography demonstrated aortic valve vegetation. S. parasanguinis was identified in the blood cultures. In conclusion; all in all, it-s remarkable to isolate S. parasanguinis as a causal agent of infective endocarditis in a patient who is a veterinarian with history of colonic carcinoma presented with clinical manifestation of spondylodiscitis.
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Hakyemez I. N. , Durdu B., Okay G., Bolukcu S., GULTEPE B., ASLAN T., -Infective endocarditis case due to streptococcus parasanguinis presented with spondylodiscitis-, CUKUROVA MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.41, ss.591-594, 2016