| Literature DB >> 2608600 |
D N Poller1, A Curry, L A Ganguli, R C Routledge.
Abstract
The present report is the first description to our knowledge of a clinical case of bacterial calcification in human infective endocarditic vegetations. Partial calcification of bacteria within vegetations may be a further mechanism of bacterial protection from host defences and antibiotics. Similar calcification has recently been reported in vegetations formed on porcine valvular prostheses implanted experimentally in sheep.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2608600 PMCID: PMC2429195 DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.65.767.665
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Postgrad Med J ISSN: 0032-5473 Impact factor: 2.401