From Traveler’s Diarrhea to Infective Endocarditis: A Case of Presumed Bacterial Translocation of Streptococcus mitis/oralis

Journal Article Accepted manuscript From Traveler's Diarrhea to Infective Endocarditis: A Case of Presumed Bacterial Translocation of Streptococcus mitis/oralis Get access Shigeto Horiuchi, MD, Shigeto Horiuchi, MD Department of General Medicine, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5105-2056 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Michihiro Kudo, MD, Michihiro Kudo, MD Writing - review & editing Department of General Medicine, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nobuhiro Nagai, MD, Nobuhiro Nagai, MD Writing - review & editing Department of General Medicine, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Tamao Nakashita, MD, Tamao Nakashita, MD Writing - review & editing Department of Rheumatology and Allergy, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Izumi Kitagawa, MD, PhD Izumi Kitagawa, MD, PhD Writing - review & editing Department of General Medicine, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Travel Medicine, taaf096, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taaf096 Published: 13 September 2025 Article history Received: 29 June 2025 Revision received: 30 August 2025 Accepted: 09 September 2025 Published: 13 September 2025