Mycoplasma endocarditis: two case reports and a review

Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Feb 1;38(3):e21-4. doi: 10.1086/380839. Epub 2003 Dec 29.

Abstract

We describe 2 patients with endocarditis for whom blood cultures and cardiac valve cultures were repeatedly sterile. Broad-range eubacterial polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification performed on cardiac valve specimens from these 2 patients detected DNA of Mycoplasma hominis, for one patient, and of Ureaplasma parvum, for the other patient. Three other cases of infective endocarditis caused by mycoplasmas were identified in the literature. It is important to rule out a diagnosis of mycoplasma endocarditis because the evolution of the disease may be fatal and it requires an adequate and specific antibiotic therapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • DNA, Bacterial / analysis
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycoplasma Infections / drug therapy
  • Mycoplasma Infections / microbiology
  • Mycoplasma hominis / genetics
  • Mycoplasma hominis / isolation & purification*
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Ureaplasma / genetics
  • Ureaplasma / isolation & purification*
  • Ureaplasma Infections / drug therapy
  • Ureaplasma Infections / microbiology

Substances

  • DNA, Bacterial