Emerging issues in infective endocarditis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1110-1116

  Millar, Beverley C ^a   Moore, John E ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CASPOFUNGIN; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; VORICONAZOLE;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BARTONELLA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL METABOLISM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICINE; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SCIENCE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 2542521671     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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