Excerpt Clarke and Haining (1) in 1936 described a 15-year-old Japanese girl with
endocarditis due to Neisseria catarrhalis. At autopsy, she had no anatomical evidence of …

Excerpt That vegetative endocarditis is due to microörganisms conveyed to the valves
through the veins from external foci was first consistently proposed by Emmanuel Winge in a …

Excerpt The most common cause of death in patients with bacterial endocarditis is heart
failure (1). Bacteriologic cure is generally easily achieved with antibiotics, and complications …

Excerpt Pseudomonas aeruginosa (B. pyocyaneus) is a common saprophyte of the skin and
gastrointestinal tract. 1 That it may also inhabit the urinary tract is suggested by its …

Candidaendocarditis was first described in 1939 by Freedman and Donaldson as an
unidentified yeast on the aortic valve. Since then, numerous reports have been published …

Approximately 2,500 cases of systemic meningococcal infections are reported to the
National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta each year. Meningococcal endocarditis (ME) …

Excerpt To the editor: Pollock and Holzman (1) reported in this journal a patient with a
prosthetic valve in whom Neisseria catarrhalis endocarditis was found. N. catarrhalis …

Neisseria mucosa is usually a commensal inhabitant of the oral mucous membranes. A 19-
year-old man with Marfan's syndrome developed endocarditis that was caused by this …

Excerpt Infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve is often seen in drug addicts who use the
intravenous route. Although antibiotic therapy is the initial mode of therapy in these patients …

The patient was a 55-year-old man admitted for acute parotitis approximately 1 month after
dental extraction of decayed teeth for which he had received prophylactic antibiotics. On …