The BSAC guidelines on treatment of infectious endocarditis (IE) were last published in
2004. The guidelines presented here have been updated and extended to reflect …

Infective endocarditis is life-threatening; identification of the underlying etiology informs
optimized individual patient management. Changing epidemiology, advances in blood …

The etiologic diagnosis of infective endocarditis is easily made in the presence of
continuous bacteremia with gram-positive cocci. However, the blood culture may contain a …

Members of the family Chlamydiaceae are obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria that
cause a broad spectrum of disease in man, other mammals and birds. Infection in animals …

Recent observations have begun to support a role for Bartonella spp. as animal as well as
human pathogens. Bartonella spp. are vector-transmitted, blood-borne, intracellular, gram …

To identify the current etiologies of blood culture-negative infective endocarditis and to
describe the epidemiologic, clinical, laboratory, and echocardiographic characteristics …

“I have, on many occasions, examined normal blood and normal tissues using methods that
ensure that such organisms are not overlooked, and I have never, in a single instance, found …

Abstract Al. pha. pro. te. o. bac. te′ ri. a. Gr. n. alpha name of first letter of Greek alphabet;
Gr. n. Proteus ocean god able to change shape; Gr. n. bakterion a small rod; ML fem. pl. n …

Identification of Bartonella species is of increasing importance as the number of infections in
which these bacteria are involved increases. To date, these gram-negative bacilli have been …

Background After a 12-year absence, epidemic typhus has re-emerged among the
displaced population of Burundi. Following the outbreak of civil war in 1993, over 760 000 …