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. 2018 Jul 27;5(8):ofy183. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy183

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Figure 2. — Etiology of native vs prosthetic valve infectious endocarditis. Bars indicate the frequency of each etiology in the whole study period. Dark gray: prosthetic; light gray: native. Significative differences are indicated in the figure. ^aThree cases caused by Candida spp. and 2 cases caused by Aspergillus spp. Abbreviations: CoNS, coagulase-negative staphylococci; HACEK group bacteria, Haemophilus species, Aggregatibacter species, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella species; VGS, viridans group streptococci .