Prevention of bacterial endocarditis: Recommendations by the American Heart Association

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1448-1458

  Dajani, Adnan S ^b   Taubert, Kathryn A ^a   Wilson, Walter ^b   Bolger, Ann F ^b   Bayer, Arnold ^b   Ferrieri, Patricia ^b   Gewitz, Michael H ^b   Shulman, Stanford T ^b   Nouri, Soraya ^b   Newburger, Jane W ^b   Hutto, Cecilia ^b   Pallasch, Thomas J ^b   Gage, Tommy W ^b   Levison, Matthew E ^b   Peter, Georges ^b   Zuccaro Jr , Gregory ^b  

^a AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MOUTH HYGIENE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031438639     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516156     Document Type: Review

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