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 ...

Bacterial genomics is a scientific discipline that concerns the genome, encompassing the entire hereditary information, of bacteria. Bacterial genomics can, for example, be used to study bacterial ...

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.

The vaginal flora is the bacteria that live inside the vagina. The normal vaginal flora is dominated by various lactobacillus species. Lactobacilli help to keep the vagina healthy by producing lactic ...

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 ...

Transthoracic echocardiogram has low sensitivity and, if negative, should be followed by TEE to exclude endocarditis. Not all cases of non-HACEK Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis necessarily ...

Bacteremia in elderly patients is particularly concerning due to their reduced immunity and often insidious disease progression, which often results in subtle clinical symptoms ... Patients with ...