Etiological diagnostic of blood culture negative endocarditis

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 295-296

  Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGUS ANTIBODY;

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; BLOOD; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NOTE; Q FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RICKETTSIOSIS; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BLOOD; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33745434764     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13089662     Document Type: Editorial

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