%0 Journal Article
%T Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Pasteurella in a penicillin allergic patient: challenges in diagnosis and treatment
%A Giovanni Satta
%A Rebecca Louise Gorton
%A Hala Kandil
%J Infectious Disease Reports
%D 2012
%I PAGEPress Publications
%R 10.4081/idr.2012.e32
%X Pasteurella multocida is a rare cause of infective endocarditis with only a few cases described. This report involves a 38-year-old penicillin-allergic patient in an immunocompromised state with several co-morbidities. Two molecular microbiological techniques, 16S rRNA sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry were used to confirm the species identification as P. multocida. Previous reports in the literature are also reviewed.
%K Pasteurella multocida
%K endocarditis
%K 16S-rRNA
%K MALDI-TOF
%U http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/idr/article/view/3946