Bacterial Endocarditis Due to Moraxella New Species I

ALTHOUGH endocarditis due to gram-negative pleomorphic organisms is being increasingly recognized, to our knowledge there are no clinical reports of infection with one such organism, Moraxella new species I. In the following case of bacterial endocarditis in a four-year-old boy with ventricular septal defect this organism was isolated from the blood.Case ReportA 4-year-old boy had been followed in the Pediatric Clinic at Harbor General Hospital with the clinical diagnosis of a small ventricular septal defect. On September 23, 1964, he was admitted to the hospital with a 2-week history of malaise, pallor, irritability, anorexia, occasional vomiting and . . .