@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00016697, author = {Yamamoto, Yoshihiro and Shioshita, Kei and Takazono, Takahiro and Seki, Masafumi and Izumikawa, Koichi and Kakeya, Hiroshi and Yanagihara, Katsunori and Tashiro, Takayoshi and Otsuka, Yoshihito and Ohkusu, Kiyofumi and Kohno, Shigeru}, issue = {15}, journal = {Internal Medicine}, month = {Aug}, note = {A 58-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with fever. The vegetation was confirmed by echocardiography on the tricuspid valve and Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae was isolated by blood culture. The patient died due to heart failure, and tricuspid valve vegetation was confirmed on autopsy and the sample of Gram's staining showed Gram-positive microcolonies. Although about 60 cases of E. rhusiopathiae endocarditis have been reported, Japanese cases are extremely rare., Internal Medicine, vol.47(15), pp.1437-1440; 2008}, pages = {1437--1440}, title = {An Autopsy Case of Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae Endocarditis}, volume = {47}, year = {2008} }