Escherichia coli
is a rare cause of infectious endocarditis. We report a clinical case of
E. coli
endocarditis of a native mitral valve in a young 26-year-old woman with a recurrent urinary tract infection who had a high fever for one week despite probabilistic treatment with amoxcillin-clavulanic acid 3 g per day. The patient was successfully treated with antibiotics and recovered without surgery.
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