However, the impact of race on the risk of stroke among infective endocarditis (IE) patients is not well understood. Objective: This study aims to investigate the racial disparities in the risk of ...

Consequently, a lack of peripheral manifestations should not dissuade clinicians from consideration of bacterial endocarditis in the above scenario.

The symptoms of viral fever and bacterial infection may seem quite common to you. But there is a lot of difference between the two. Let us know from the doctor what the difference is between viral ...

Bacterial immune evasion is the process by which bacteria avoid and antagonize the bacterial host response, which is mediated by the host's immune system.

2010;8(8):879-885. These examples highlight the importance of host immune defenses in protecting against Gram-negative endocarditis. With a changing demographic profile, notably a growing elderly ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

Penicillin was discontinued in other patients when the pattern of their illness was favorable as judged by symptoms ... many of the other clinical features of bacterial endocarditis.

aDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada bDepartment of Pathology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada cDepartment of Medicine ...