Infertility treatment-associated Abiotrophia defectiva endocarditis with positive PR3-ANCA: a case report

Abstract We report a rare case of a 41-year-old woman with Abiotrophia defectiva infective endocarditis (IE) after infertility treatment, mimicking ANCA-associated vasculitis. A. defectiva is a nutritionally variant streptococcus found in human microbiota, rarely causing IE. The patient had undergon...

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Main Authors: Narumitsu Kagoshima, Manabu Hisahara, Akira Shiose
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-08-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-11461-w
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