Infective endocarditis in Arkansan children from 1990 through 2002

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1048-1052

  Coward, Keith ^a   Tucker, Nancy ^a,b   Darville, Toni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Endocarditis; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARKANSAS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0348011591     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000101186.88472.b5     Document Type: Review

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