Aortic Homograft Endocarditis Caused by Campylobacter jejuni

Sander Dinant; Karin Schurink; Jaap Deckers; Juliette Severin

doi:10.1128/JCM.00935-11

Aortic Homograft Endocarditis Caused by Campylobacter jejuni

Sander Dinant, Karin Schurink, Jaap Deckers, Juliette Severin

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Abstract

We report the first case of homograft endocarditis caused by Campylobacter jejuni, which was treated successfully with antibiotic therapy and valve replacement. To our knowledge, only two other cases of C. jejuni endocarditis, involving native valves, have been reported in the medical literature.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)	4016-4017
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	49
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00935-11
Publication status	Published - 2011

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