Molecular Diagnosis of Granulicatella elegans on the Cardiac Valve of a Patient with Culture-Negative Endocarditis
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- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (5) , 411
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.5.1845-1847.2002
Abstract
We herein report one case of culture-negative infectious endocarditis (IE) where the organism, Granulicatella elegans , was identified by molecular analysis using broad-range PCR primers complementary to the 16S rRNA gene on the removed valve. The results and utility of this method are discussed.Keywords
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