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Microbiological diagnosis infective endocarditis
1. Mr. Mohammad Mukhit Kazi
Assistant professor
Department of General Pathology and Microbiology
Sinhgad Dental College and Hospital Pune
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
2. To know in brief about the bacterial
endocarditis
To know the risk factors for endocarditis
To know the most common etiological agents in
endocariditis
To know the common steps in the laboratory
diagnosis – microbiological
To know the possible cause of negative
cultures in endocarditis
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
3. Endocarditis
Septic thrombophlebitis
Mycotic aneurysm
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
4. Infective Endocarditis: a microbial infection of the
endocardial surface of the heart
Common site: heart valve, but may occur at septal
defect, on chordae tendinae or in the mural endocardium
Classification:
◦ acute or subacute-chronic on temporal basis, severity of
presentation and progression
◦ By organism
◦ Native valve or prosthetic valve
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
5. Bacteraemia
◦ Transient bacteraemia occurs when a heavily
colonised mucosal surface is traumatised
Dental extraction
Periodontal surgery
Tooth brushing
Tonsillectomy
Operations involving the respiratory, GI or GU tract mucosa
Oesophageal dilatation
Biliary tract surgery
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
6. 1. Streptococci
◦ Viridans streptococci/α-haemolytic streptococci
S. mitis, S. sanguis, S. oralis
◦ S. bovis
Associated with colonic carcinoma
1. Enterococci
E. faecalis, E. faecium
Associated with GU/GI tract procedures
Approx. 10% of patients with enterococcal bacteraemia
develop endocarditis
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
7. 3. Staphylococci
Staphylococcci have surpassed
viridans streptococci as the most common
cause of infective endocarditis
◦ S. aureus
Native valves
acute endocarditis
◦ Coagulase-negative staphylococci
Prosthetic valve endocarditis
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
8. 4. Gram-negative rods
◦ HACEK group
Haemophilus aphrophilus, Actinobacillus
actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis,
Eikenella corrodens, Kingella kingae.
Fastidious oropharyngeal GNBs
◦ E. coli, Klebsiella etc
Uncommon
◦ Pseudomonas aeruginosa
IVDA
◦ Neisseria gonorrhoae
Rare since introduction of penicillin
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
9. 5. Others
◦ Fungi
Candida species, Aspergillus species
◦ Q fever
◦ Chlamydia
◦ Bartonella
◦ Legionella
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
10. 1. Blood culture
2. Echo
◦ TTE
◦ TOE
1. FBC/ESR/CRP
2. Rheumatoid Factor
3. MSU
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
11. No prior antibiotic
Aseptic technique
Sterile container ( Blood culture bottles)
3 specimens of blood at an interval of 30 min
Immediate transport or in case of delay must be
incubated and not refrigerated
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
12. Method Advantages Disadvantages
Manual • cost effective
• Easily available
•Time consuming
• Requires manpower
material
• Require more blood
sample
•Results available after
alternate days
•Final results on 3rd
day
Automated • Results can be obtained
within 7-8 hours
• Requires less blood
sample
• Costly
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
13. Blood culture
bottles for
automated method
Biphasic Blood
culture bottles for
manual
Blood culture
bottles for manual
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune
14. 5-7% of patients with endocarditis will have
sterile blood cultures
1 Year study from France
◦ 44 of 88 cases of CNE, negative cultures
were associated with prior administration of
antibiotics
Fasidious or non-culturable organism
Non-infective endocarditis
Withhold empirical therapy until cultures drawn
Mohammad Mukhit Kazi, Lecturer SDCH
Pune