1. Bacillus cereus prosthetic valve endocarditis
Evaristo Castedo , MD, Almudena Castro, MD, Paloma Martin, MD, Jorge Roda, MD, Carlos G Montero, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 68, Issue 6, Pages (December 1999)
DOI: /S (99)

2. Fig 1
Preoperative transesophageal echocardiographic image of the heart, showing two mobile vegetations on the mitral prosthetic valve (arrows). (LA = left atrium; LV = left ventricle.)
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )

3. Fig 2
Scanning electron microscopic view of the Bacillus cereus isolated from the prosthetic vegetation. Rod-shaped cell with a central and ellipsoidal endospore; bacillary body width more than 1 μm; peritrichous flagella (arrow). (E = endospore.)
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )