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Chapter 1 - Infective Endocarditis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

By
Jorge Fernandez  and
Jessica L. Osterman
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 1 - 5
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Additional Readings

Baddour, L. M., Wilson, W. R., Bayer, A. S., et al., Infective endocarditi in adults: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications. A scientific statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2015; 132(15): 1435–86.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoen, B. and Duval, X., Infective endocarditis. N. Engl. J. Med. 2013; 368(15): 1425–33.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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