Pericarditis
Paul Auwaerter, M.D.
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PATHOGENS
- Pericarditis causes: include infectious, non-infectious (malignancy/metabolic), drug-induced and immune-mediated.
- Infectious pathogens: a partial listing
- Viruses:
- Bacteria: in the antibiotic era, increasingly due to mixed infections of oral flora (Peptostreptococcus/ anaerobes)
- Fungal:
- Parasitic:
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PATHOGENS
- Pericarditis causes: include infectious, non-infectious (malignancy/metabolic), drug-induced and immune-mediated.
- Infectious pathogens: a partial listing
- Viruses:
- Bacteria: in the antibiotic era, increasingly due to mixed infections of oral flora (Peptostreptococcus/ anaerobes)
- Fungal:
- Parasitic:
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