Review of 65 cases of infective endocarditis in Dunedin Public Hospital

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1200, 2004, Pages

  Chu, John W S ^a   Wilkins, Gerard T ^a   Williams, Michael J A ^a  

^a DUNEDIN HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MONITORING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROORGANISM; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VEGETATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAUSALITY; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 16544385492     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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