HACEK organisms
id:
hacek-organisms-260-3155074
title:
HACEK organisms
text:
The HACEK organisms are a group of fastidious Gram-negative bacteria that are an unusual cause of infective endocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart due to bacterial infection. HACEK is an abbreviation of the initials of the genera of this group of bacteria: Haemophilus, Aggregatibacter, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, Kingella. The HACEK organisms are a normal part of the human microbiota, living in the oral-pharyngeal region. The bacteria were originally grouped because they were though
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Group of bacteria
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HACEK_organisms
date created:
date modified:
2022-07-31T13:10:57Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q253172","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q253172"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14