L. micdadei PVE successfully treated with levofloxacin/valve replacement: case report and review of the literature |
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Authors: | Patel Mahesh C Levi Michael H Mahadevi Panna Nana Michele Merav Avraham D Robbins Noah |
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Affiliation: | Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 East 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467, USA. maheshpatel.md@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) due to Legionella micdadei was diagnosed in a man a year after valve replacement with a bovine xenograft. He did not have pneumonia. The microbiologic diagnosis was established after valvectomy, which was necessitated by failure of empiric antibiotics to eradicate the infection. The fastidious organism grew only on buffered charcoal yeast extract agar and was confirmed as L. micdadei by gene sequence analysis. We believe this to be the first culture-proven case of L. micdadei PVE reported in the literature. |
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Keywords: | Endocarditis Legionella micdadei Prosthetic valve |
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