culture negative-bacterial endocarditis

  • abiotrophic strep
  • HACEK (Haemophilus para-influenzae & aphrophilus, Actinobacillus, Cardiobacterium, Eikenella, and Kingella),
  • T. whipplei
  • Bartonella,
  • Coxiella burnetii
  • Chlamydia
  • Legionella
  • Brucella

(JAMA 2007;297:1354; Annals 2007;147:829; J Clin Microbiol 2012;50:216)