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Blind spot in endocarditis guidelines: Mycobacterium chimaera prosthetic valve endocarditis after cardiac surgery—a case series

BACKGROUND: The recently published 2023 Duke-ISCVID Criteria for Infective Endocarditis for the first time consider mycobacteria (esp. Mycobacterium chimaera) as ‘typical’ microorganisms for prosthetic valve endocarditis (major criteria). This reflects the ongoing worldwide outbreak of M. chimaera p...

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Autores principales: Trauth, Janina, Matt, Ulrich, Kohl, Thomas A, Niemann, Stefan, Herold, Susanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10468014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytad400