Rare Case of Community-Acquired Endocarditis Caused by Neisseria meningitidis Assessed by Clinical Metagenomics

Rare Case of Community-Acquired Endocarditis Caused by Neisseria meningitidis Assessed by Clinical Metagenomics

The most common causes of infective endocarditis (IE) are Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and HACEK-related organisms. In 15–30% of the IE cases, standard blood cultures remain sterile. We aimed at identifying the causative agent of a blood-culture-negative IE by whole metagenome shotgu...

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Main Authors: Vassili Choutko, Vladimir Lazarevic, Nadia Gaïa, Myriam Girard, Gesuele Renzi, Stefano Leo, Peter M. Keller, Christoph Huber, Jacques Schrenzel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
next-generation sequencing
cardiac valve
endocarditis
culture-negative infection
clinical metagenomics
Neisseria meningitidis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00112/full

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