Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection.
case_series · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 16007540.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
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).
Medical subject headings
- Endocarditis, Bacterial