Many everyday symptoms are inconsequential. You have a poor night’s sleep to thank for your bloodshot eyes, or a new lotion ...

Fifth disease in kids is a viral infection caused by human parvovirusiA type of virus that is present in nasal mucus, spit, ...

How do the 2007 IE prevention guidelines differ from the prior (1997 [11]) iteration? There are three major differences in the current version. The "highest-risk" group for whom antibiotic ...

The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which has been designated a pandemic by the World Health Organization, has infected over 1 million individuals and killed many. COVID-19 infection may progress to ...

This report describes a 45-year-old man who developed acute bacterial endocarditis involving the aortic valve due to Klebsiella type 19. Consequent to the infection the patient developed aortic ...

Infective endocarditis (IE), a microbial infection of the endocardial surface of the heart or vessels, commonly involves heart valves but may also occur at the site of a septal defect, at the ...

Objective The goal of this prospective observational study was to identify adverse events (AEs) related to the use of intravenous access sites used for infective endocarditis (IE) treatment in a ...

One of the most worrisome consults to the stroke service is the patient with neurological symptoms in the setting of infective endocarditis (IE). Stroke is the main neurological complication of IE and ...

More and more patients are operated on during the active phase of infective endocarditis (IE).1 Between 1991 and 1999, in France, the rate of cardiac surgery has increased from 31% to 50%.1 This may, ...

Case Report Pneumococcal Endocarditis of Subacute Evolution Laercio Uemura, Newton César Grassi, Luciane Cazarin Londrina, PR - Brazil With the development of penicillin, Streptococcus pneumoniae has ...

Background Native aortic and mitral valve infective endocarditis (AVE and MVE, respectively) are usually grouped together as left-sided native valve infective endocarditis (LNVE), while the ...

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...