Are the Duke criteria superior to the Beth Israel criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in children?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1451-1456

  Stockheim, Janet A ^a   Chadwick, Ellen G ^b   Kessler, Susan ^b   Amer, Michael ^b   Abdel Haq, Nahed ^b   Dajani, Adnan S ^b   Shulman, Stanford T ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032466509     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515021     Document Type: Article

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