scholarly journals Guidelines for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of endocarditis in adults: a report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. K. Gould ◽  
D. W. Denning ◽  
T. S. J. Elliott ◽  
J. Foweraker ◽  
J. D. Perry ◽  
...  
1987 ◽  
Vol 25 (13) ◽  
pp. 49-51

Infective endocarditis is at least as common today as it was 50 years ago but now affects rather older patients. Despite modern antibiotic therapy 15 to 30% of patients still die. A working party of the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) has recently made recommendations1 for the antibiotic treatment of streptococcal and staphylococcal endocarditis on which this article is based; advice from other specialists is also included.


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