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PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 94-96Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-200301000-00025
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Staphylococcus aureus; endocarditis; body piercing; navel piercing
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A 13-year-old girl with surgically corrected congenital heart disease presented with a 3-day history of fever 1 month after piercing her navel. An echocardiogram demonstrated a vegetation within her right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit, and several blood cultures were repeatedly positive for Staphylococcus aureus. Surgical replacement of the conduit in conjunction with intravenous antibiotic therapy was curative.
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