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Infective Endocarditis Complicated by Intracerebral Hemorrhage due to Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris

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  1. Division of Neurology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

    K.-H. Lin

  2. Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

    C. L. Sy

  3. Section of Microbiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

    C.-S. Chen

  4. Division of Neurology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

    C.-H. Lee

  5. Division of Neurology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

    Y.-T. Lin

  6. Division of Neurology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung and Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, 386, Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung, 813, Taiwan, ROC

    J.-Y. Li

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Lin, KH., Sy, C.L., Chen, CS. et al. Infective Endocarditis Complicated by Intracerebral Hemorrhage due to Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris . Infection 38, 147–149 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-010-9219-3

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