PEDIATRICS Vol. 75 No. 1 January 1985, pp. 114-116
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Group C Streptococcal Endocarditis

PAUL GOLDBERG 1, STANFORD T. SHULMAN MD1, and RAM YOGEV MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Although endocarditis is often caused by agr-hemolytic streptococci, endocarditis due to beta-hemolytic streptococci is rare. Most cases of beta-streptococcal endocarditis are due to Lancefield groups B or G, whereas group C streptococci rarely cause endocarditis.1 Only 15 cases of endocarditis caused by group C streptococci, all in adults, have been reported.2-13 The rarity of this association is emphasized by the fact that Mohr et al13 reported one patient with group C streptococcal endocarditis from a series of 150,000 blood cultures. In addition, Cherubin and Neu14 found no cases of group C streptococcal endocarditis while reviewing 656 cases of infective endocarditis.

Submitted on January 23, 1984
Accepted on March 23, 1984




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