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Koichi Akashi, MD; Toshiyuki Ishimaru, MD; Yasuo Tsuda, MD; Seiho Nagafuchi, MD; Ryoichi Itaya, MD; Jun Hayashi, MD; Yoshiro Sawae, MD; Yoshito Kawachi, MD; Yoshiyuki Niho, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1988;148(11):2446-2447.

Abstract
Streptococcus milleri was isolated in pure culture from the pericardial fluid of a 42-year-old man with pulmonary tuberculosis. Pericardiectomy had to be done to cure the pericarditis.

(Arch Intern Med 1988;148:2446-2447)

Author Affiliations
From the First Department of Internal Medicine (Drs Akashi, Tsuda, Itaya, Sawae, Niho, Ishimaru, Nagafuchi, and Hayashi), and the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (Dr Kawachi), Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka,Japan.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 10, 1988.

Reprint requests to First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku Maidashi 3-1-1, Fukuoka 812, Japan (Dr Akashi).

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