Endocarditis of native aortic and mitral valves due to Corynebacterium accolens: report of a case and application of phenotypic and genotypic techniques for identification.

doi:10.1128/jcm.34.5.1290-1292.1996

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Endocarditis of native aortic and mitral valves due to Corynebacterium accolens: report of a case and application of phenotypic and genotypic techniques for identification.

Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 1996

Claeys G, Vanhouteghem H, Riegel P, Wauters G, Hamerlynck R, Dierick J, de Witte J, Verschraegen G, Vaneechoutte M

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Endocarditis of native aortic and mitral valves due to an organism identified as Corynebacterium accolens developed in a 73-year-old patient without predisposing factors. The organism was identified as C. accolens by biochemical identification, amplified rRNA gene restriction analysis, and DNA-DN...

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