Endocarditis: Effects of routine echocardiography during gram-positive bacteraemia

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 335-340

  Vos, F J ^a   Bleeker Rovers, C P ^a   Sturm, P D ^a   Krabbe, P F M ^a   van Dijk, A P J ^a   Oyen, W J G ^a   Kullberg, B J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Echocardiography; Infective endocarditis; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus spp

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HEART MURMUR; HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BACTEREMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053914739     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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