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--author's response

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (12) ◽  
pp. 3017-3017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. T. Sandoe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Treatment ◽  
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ◽  
Working Party ◽  
British Society

Antibiotic treatment of bacterial endocarditis

1987 ◽  
Vol 25 (13) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Keyword(s):  
Infective Endocarditis ◽  
Antibiotic Therapy ◽  
Antibiotic Treatment ◽  
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ◽  
Older Patients ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Bacterial Endocarditis ◽  
British Society

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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