Of the following organisms, which one is among the Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, Aggregati-bacter actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, and Kingella spp. (HACEK) group of organisms that cause slowly progressive bacterial endocarditis?
a. Capnocytophaga gingivalis
b. Sphingomonas paucimobilis
c. E. corrodens
d. A. actinomycetemcomitans
D
The types of infections caused by the bacteria in Chapter 30 vary from periodontitis to endocar-ditis. Three of these organisms, A. actinomycetemcomitans, C. hominis, and Kingella spp., are the A, C, and K, respectively, of the HACEK (AACEK) group of organisms that cause slowly progressive bacterial endocarditis.
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