Abstract
There are few case reports of infections caused by Brevibacterium species, and there have been no previously reported cases of endocarditis caused by any of the 6 known species of Brevibacterium. We report the first case of Brevibacterium endocarditis (caused by Brevibacterium otitidis) in a patient with prosthetic heart valves. The patient responded to 6 weeks of treatment with vancomycin and 2 weeks with gentamicin, and she has been receiving long-term maintenance therapy with oral azithromycin.
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Dass, K. N., Smith, M. A., Gill, V. J., Goldstein, S. A., & Lucey, D. R. (2002). Brevibacterium endocarditis: a first report. Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 35(2), 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1086/340984
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