| Literature DB >> 16007540 |
Vivian H Chu1, Daniel J Sexton, Christopher H Cabell, L Barth Reller, Paul A Pappas, Rakesh K Singh, Vance G Fowler, G Ralph Corey, Olcay Aksoy, Christopher W Woods.
Abstract
Repeat infective endocarditis due to the same species can represent relapse of the initial infection or a new infection. We used time-based clinical criteria and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis-based molecular criteria to classify 13 cases of repeat infective endocarditis as either relapse or reinfection. The agreement between clinical and molecular criteria was imperfect (agreement in 10 [77%] of 13 cases).Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16007540 DOI: 10.1086/431590
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079