Staphylococcus capitis endocarditis due to a transvenous endocardial pacemaker infection: Case report and review of Staphylococcus capitis endocarditis

CoNS as a cause of endocarditis appears to be increasing and the current ability to determine the species of these organisms should elicit the epidemiology, clinical characteristics and biomolecular mechanisms involved in the induction of valvular disease.