Successful conserative treatment of nontyphoid salmonella endocarditis involving a bioprosthetic valve

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 368-370

  Goerre, Stefan ^a   Malinverni, Raffaele ^a   Aeschbacher, Beat C ^a,b  

^a PSI   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Heart valve bioprosthesis; Quinolone antibiotics; Salmonella; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; NETILMICIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BIOPROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SALMONELLOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031596795     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960210516     Document Type: Article

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