內科LIAO, CHUN-HSIN,TENG, LEE-JENECHUN-HSIN,TENG, LEE-JENELIAOHSUEH, PO-RENPO-RENHSUEHCHEN, YU-CHIYU-CHICHENHUANG, LI-MINLI-MINHUANGCHANG, SHAN-CHWENSHAN-CHWENCHANGHO, SHEN-WUSHEN-WUHO鄧麗珍2008-12-052018-07-112008-12-052018-07-112004http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/88374From January 1993 to December 2002, 28 patients with nutritionally variant streptococci (NVS) infections were treated at a university hospital in Taiwan. Twelve (43%) of these patients had various underlying malignancies, and 7 ( 25%) had underlying valvular heart diseases. Nine patients ( 32%) had infective endocarditis, and 9 (32%) had primary bacteremia. The deaths of 7 patients (25%) were directly related to NVS infection. Among the 28 isolates recovered from these patients, 50% were not susceptible to penicillin, 33% were not susceptible to cefotaxime, and 93% were not susceptible to azithromycin.en-US