LETTER
Significance of Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis
Saeed Ahmad
1 April 1993 | Volume 118 Issue 7 | Page 572
TO THE EDITOR:
Tornos and colleagues [1] found three cases of Streptococcus bovis endocarditis but appeared not to search for bowel carcinoma, the presumed cause of death in one patient a year after the endocarditis was cured. The importance of differentiating group D streptococci by species and of performing stool cultures for S. bovis in this clinical setting cannot be overemphasized.
1. Tornos MP, Permanyer-Miralda G, Olona M, Gil M, Galve E, Almirante B, et al. Long-term complications of native valve infective endocarditis in non-addicts. A 15-year follow-up study. Ann Intern Med. 1992; 117:567-72.
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