A case of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus gordonii complicated with bacterial meningitis and cerebral infarction —— Application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS)
Jinchun Ye, Lu Ye, Wei Sun, Shuhua Xie, Zhaohui Lai · 2026
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Description
Jinchun Ye and co-authors report a fatal heart valve infection found by gene sequencing in this 2026 case study. Streptococcus gordonii rarely causes infective endocarditis, a grave valve infection. This patient first showed stroke signs, then meningitis and a leaking mitral valve.
Spinal fluid sequencing named the germ within forty hours of arrival. That beat blood culture by about thirty hours. Clots kept striking during treatment, and one blocked a neck artery, needing urgent clot removal. The patient still died of heart failure in the end. The case urges early valve surgery checks when stroke and meningitis appear together.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jinchun Ye, Lu Ye, Wei Sun, Shuhua Xie, Zhaohui Lai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |