The health-care facility environment is rarely implicated in disease transmission, except
among patients who are immunocompromised. Nonetheless, inadvertent exposures to …

Background—Despite advances in medical, surgical, and critical care interventions, infective
endocarditis remains a disease that is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality …

Over the last 30 years, Serratia marcescens has become an important cause of nosocomial
infection. There have been many reports concerning the identification, antibiotic …

Background: Infective endocarditis caused by non-HACEK (species other than Haemophilus
species, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella …

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is a small fastidious gram-negative coccobacillus
that fails to grow on MacConkey's agar. Slow growth in broth may lead to delays in …

Differences in the ability of bacteria to adhere to normal valvular endothelium may account
for the predominance of particular species as pathogens in acute endocarditis. An in vitro …

Cardiovascular infections due to Salmonella enterica are infrequently reported, so their
clinical features, prognosis, and optimal treatment are not completely known. Mortality …

Abstract The BSAC Guidelines on Endocarditis were last published in 1998. The Guidelines
presented here have been updated and extended to reflect changes in both the antibiotic …

Brucella endocarditis, although a rare complication of brucellosis, is the main cause of death
related to this disease. This report describes a case of aortic endocarditis due to Brucella …

Serious bacterial and fungal infections such as infective endocarditis (IE) are among the
most common medical complications in persons who inject drugs (PWID). 1–3 IE once …