Study of 42 cases of infective endocarditis in the HAART era in Spain

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1073-1075

  Valencia Ortega, M E ^a   Guinea, J ^a   Enrique, A ^a   Ortega, G ^a   Moreno, V ^a   Gonzalez Lahoz J ^a  

^a NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CLOXACILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOMEGALY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DATA ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART MURMUR; HEPATITIS C; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0242268539     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00720.x     Document Type: Letter

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