Blood culture-negative endocarditis in a reference center: Etiologic diagnosis of 348 cases

Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 162-173

  Houpikian, Pierre ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUITANA; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRANULICATELLA ELEGANS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; PACEMAKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; Q FEVER; SEROTYPING;

EID: 18744370205     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.md.0000165658.82869.17     Document Type: Article

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