Atopic dermatitis as a risk factor for acute native valve endocarditis

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 469-471

  Onoda, Koji ^a   Mizutani, Hitoshi ^a   Komada, Takuya ^a   Kanemitsu, Shinji ^a   Shimono, Takatsugu ^a   Shimpo, Hideto ^a   Yada, Isao ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; POLITEF; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CULTURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034123518     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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