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Case report reveals infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus pseudoporcinus in an elderly male with a cardiac device, highlighting rare nongenitourinary infection risks.
Streptococcus pseudoporcinus was first recognized as a colonizer of the female genital tract but upcoming cases with no genitourinary infections have been reported since then. Here we report a case of an 81-year old male with a recently implanted cardiac device that was diagnosed with infective endocarditis caused by S. pseudoporcinus.
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