… mitis are oral commensals, they can be opportunistic pathogens … infective endocarditis.
A recent taxonomic re-evaluation of the Mitis group has embedded the species Streptococcus …

… of streptococci causing infective endocarditis (IE). A … streptococci were not identified further.
The distribution of the remaining 161 viridans group streptococci was Streptococcus mitis …

… endocarditis of whom 17 (37%) had S mitis endocarditis. The … 17 patients with S mitis
endocarditis is the subject of this article. … Conditions pre¬ disposing to infective endocarditis were …

… mitis can escape from this niche and cause a variety of infectious complications including
infective endocarditis, … mitis is a leading cause of infective endocarditis and bacteraemia. In …

… bovis group, the Streptococcus mitis group, the Streptococcus mutans group, and the … This
study demonstrates that mutans and mitis group isolates, as identified by MALDI-TOF MS, are …

… groups, cancer was less frequently observed in IE patents infected with species from the
Mitis group (10/121) compared with the Bovis group (11/49) and the Pyogenic group (19/60), p …

… 2003 to 2012 that were consistent with infective endocarditis were investigated. In total,
we identified 48 cases of infective endocarditis caused by viridans group streptococci, 7 (14.5%) …

… mitis has become prevalent among clinically isolated strains from bacteremic patients, …
herein an autopsy case of infective endocarditis caused by multiple drug-resistant S. mitis in an …

… Streptococci frequently cause infective endocarditis (IE), yet the prevalence of IE in patients
with bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by different streptococcal … S oralis and S mitis were …

… bacterial endocarditis with a culture of a penicillinsensitive Streptococcus mitis isolated from
a human case of subacute bacterial endocarditis. Utilizing the method of Lillehei and his co- …