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Heart Valves Should Not Be Routinely Cultured

Heart valve (HV) culture is one of the major Duke criteria for the diagnosis of definite infectious endocarditis (IE). However, previous series suggest that heart valve culture does not have good sensitivity (7.8 to 17.6%) and may be contaminated during manipulation. Our goal was to establish the va...

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Hauptverfasser: Muñoz, Patricia, Bouza, Emilio, Marín, Mercedes, Alcalá, Luis, Rodríguez Créixems, Marta, Valerio, Maricela, Pinto, Angel
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2008
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546744/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18632908
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02173-07
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