Healthcare associated infective endocarditis: A distinct entity

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 474-480

  Siegman Igra, Yardena ^a   Koifman, Bella ^a   Porat, Reuven ^a   Porat, Dalit ^a   Giladi, Michael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 47349115756     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701837357     Document Type: Article

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