Fulminant diphtheritic mitral valve endocarditis.
Open Access
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 51 (3) , 227-228
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.51.3.227
Abstract
Fulminant endocarditis affecting the mitral valve in an 11-year-old boy was caused by a nontoxogenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.Keywords
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