RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 1120
OP 1123
VO 23
IS 9
A1 Mona A. Kholeif
A1 Abdulhalim J. Kinsara
A1 Boniface O. George
A1 Abdulfattah W. Mowallad
A1 Fakri A. Bugis
A1 Abimbola O. Osoba
YR 2002
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/23/9/1120.abstract
AB The increasing usage of cephalosporins, to which the enterococci are resistant, has resulted in the rising number of enterococcal infections worldwide. Enterococci are a normal part of the flora of the human gastrointestinal tract, buccal cavity, perineal skin, vagina, urethra and gallbladder, but may occur as pathogens in a number of sites causing urinary tract infections, intra-abdominal infections, fatal bacteremia, meningitis and endocarditis. A Saudi male who developed enterococcal endocarditis with vegetations on both aortic and mitral valves required mitral and aortic valve replacement. The attention of physicians is drawn to the increasing frequency of enterococcus as a cause of nosocomial infections, the risk factors, and antibiotic resistance pattern including resistance to vancomycin as well as its potential for virulence.