Streptococcus mutans isolated from a 4‐year‐old girl diagnosed with infective endocarditis

• Main Authors: Yoshio Kondo (Author), Tomonori Hoshino (Author), Midori Ogawa (Author), Kiyoshi Hidaka (Author), Tomoyuki Hasuwa (Author), Hiroyuki Moriuchi (Author), Taku Fujiwara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objectives Infective endocarditis (IE) has an extremely high fatality rate. In this study, we isolated a strain of Streptococcus mutans, which we called HM, from the blood drawn from a 4‐year‐old girl diagnosed with IE. We aimed to fully type the HM strain and investigate its biological pro...