CASE REPORTS
Lactococcus garvieae Endocarditis with Initial Presentation of Acute Cerebral Infarction in a Healthy Immunocompetent Man
2008 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 1143-1146
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2008 Volume 47 Issue 12 Pages 1143-1146
Lactococcus garvieae is considered a rare, opportunistic pathogen with low virulence in human infection. There are only scattered case reports of L. garvieae-related infection in humans in the past 20 years. The majority of them were reported to be infective endocarditis. We present a case study of a 41-year-old man with infective endocarditis caused by L. garvieae which is the first reported case with initial presentation as acute cerebral infarction.
