PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - R Horst AU - D Dyer AU - A Hallett TI - Fulminant diphtheritic mitral valve endocarditis. AID - 10.1136/adc.51.3.227 DP - 1976 Mar 01 TA - Archives of Disease in Childhood PG - 227--228 VI - 51 IP - 3 4099 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/51/3/227.short 4100 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/51/3/227.full SO - Arch Dis Child1976 Mar 01; 51 AB - Fulminant endocarditis affecting the mitral valve in an 11-year-old boy was caused by a nontoxogenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.