TB Research

Association of tuberculosis and tricuspid valve endocarditis in AIDS patient with Ebstein heart anomaly

Radovanović Spurnić A, Vujisić Tešić B, Boričić Kostić M, Jevtović D

Journal of infection in developing countries · 2018-01

Abstract

A case of tricuspid valve endocarditis in an AIDS patient, an intravenous drug user, initially empirically unsuccessfully treated as a Staphylococcus aureus infection, and thereafter turned to be, most likely, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis etiology is presented.