Diagnosis of infective endocarditis I

Infective Endocarditis: Management in the Era of Intravascular Devices

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 241-254

  Brusch, John L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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