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PATHOGENS
- Pericarditis causes:include infectious, non-infectious (malignancy/metabolic), drug-induced and immune-mediated.
- Viruses:
- Enteroviruses (Coxsackie, Echovirus)
- HIV (AIDS-associated pericarditis)
- Influenza
- Mumps
- Varicella zoster virus
- Epstein Barr virus
- Bacteria: in antibiotic era, increasingly due to mixed infections of oral flora (Peptostreptococcus/anaerobes)
- Staphylococcus aureus (most common single organism cause)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Salmonella spp
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Anaerobes
- Peptostreptococcus
- Propionibacterium acnes
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Borrelia burgdorferi (infrequent cause of pericardial effusions)
- Fungal:
- Coccidioides immitis
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- Candida spp. (immunocompromised pts)
- Aspergillus spp. (immunocompromised pts)
- Cryptococcus neoformans (immunocompromised pts)
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Last updated: October 4, 2015
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