HACEK group
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- Gram negative fastidious slow growing bacilli or coccobacilli.
- Predilection for endocardial infections.
- Responsible for 5-10% of culture negative endocarditis.
- Usually follow a subacute course.
- May have embolic phenomenon.
- Haemophilus aphrophilus, Haemophilus parainfluenzae and Haemophilus paraphrophilus
- Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
- Cardiobacterium hominis
- Eikenella corrodens
- Kingella kingae
