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This report describes the case of a 37-year-old male patient with <jats:italic>G. morbillorum<\/jats:italic> endocarditis. The patient was hospitalized for a fever of unknown origin. He complained of intermittent fever of unknown origin for 2 months. He had also undergone root canal therapy for pulpitis a month ago. After admission, the infectious pathogen <jats:italic>G. morbillorum<\/jats:italic> was identified using metagenomic next-generation sequence technology. The anaerobic blood culture bottle showed only Gram-positive cocci. Transthoracic echocardiography showed 10\u2009mm vegetation on the aorta, which met the IE diagnostic Duke\u2019s criteria, and the patient was diagnosed with <jats:italic>G. morbillorum<\/jats:italic> IE. Because no bacterial colonies were formed on the culture, the drug sensitivity test could not be conducted. Ceftriaxone anti-infective drugs are based on careful consideration of the literature and patient. Six days after antibiotic treatment in our department, the patient was discharged from the hospital in stable condition and had no adverse reactions at 1 week of follow-up. To help clinicians better understand the disease of <jats:italic>G. morbillorum<\/jats:italic> IE, we also reviewed and discussed the relevant cases published after 2010 when presenting the report.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1515\/biol-2022-0599","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]],"date-time":"2023-05-18T08:11:28Z","timestamp":1684397488000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["<i>Gemella morbillorum<\/i> infective endocarditis: A case report and literature review"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Xuejie","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Genoxor Medical Science and Technology Inc. , Shanghai , China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lichao","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Disease, China-Japan Friendship Hospital , No. 2, Yinghuayuan East Street , Chaoyang , Beijing 100010 , China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023090109413379777_j_biol-2022-0599_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Tunnicliff R. 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