Mitral and aortic valve endocarditis due to a rare microorganism: Abiotrophia defectiva and literature review

Özlem Aydemir; Hüseyin Hatipoğlu; Kerem Yılmaz; Mehmet Koroğlu; İbrahim Kara; Tayfur Demiray

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2017.14721

Özlem Aydemir¹, Hüseyin Hatipoğlu², Kerem Yılmaz², Mehmet Koroğlu², İbrahim Kara³, Tayfur Demiray¹

¹Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey
²Department of Medical Microbiology, Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya, Turkey
³Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2017.14721

Abiotrophia defectiva belongs to the nutritionally variant streptococci group and can colonize in oropharyngeal, gastrointestinal and genitourinary systems. Abiotrophia defectiva rarely causes infective endocarditis while infections caused by Abiotrophia defectiva have high morbidity and mortality rates. In this case report, we present a case of infective mitral and aortic valve endocarditis caused by Abiotrophia defectiva.

Keywords : Abiotrophia defectiva; infective endocarditis; variant streptococci

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