2023
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens12091130
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A Dual-Pathogen Mitral Valve Endocarditis Caused by Coxiella burnetii and Streptococcus gordonii—Which Came First?

Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer,
Francesco Ciotola,
Walter Geißdörfer
et al.

Abstract: Infective endocarditis (IE) is still a life-threatening disease with high morbidity and mortality. While usually caused by a single bacterium, poly-microbial infective endocarditis (IE) is rare. Here, we report a (blood-culture-negative) dual pathogen mitral valve IE caused by Coxiella burnetii and Streptococcus gordonii: A 53-year-old woman was presented to an internal medicine department with abdominal pain for further evaluation. Within the diagnostic work up, transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed a… Show more

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