Consequences of Excluding Enterococcus faecium as a Typical Endocarditis Pathogen in the Duke-ISCVID Criteria: Endocarditis Is Endocarditis Even if the Bacterium Is Uncommon
Clin Infect Dis
.
2023 Oct 13;77(8):1216-1217.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad394.
Authors
Helena Lindberg
1
2
,
Ulrika Snygg-Martin
3
4
5
,
Andreas Berge
6
7
,
Magnus Rasmussen
1
8
Affiliations
1
Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
2
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital of Halland, Halmstad, Sweden.
3
Department of Infectious Diseases, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
4
Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
5
Head of Swedish Registry of Infective Endocarditis, Swedish Society of Infectious Diseases, Gothenburg, Sweden.
6
Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
7
Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
8
Division for Infectious Diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
PMID:
37384563
PMCID:
PMC10573721
DOI:
10.1093/cid/ciad394
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment
MeSH terms
Endocarditis*
Endocarditis, Bacterial* / diagnosis
Endocarditis, Bacterial* / microbiology
Enterococcus faecium*
Humans