The study is intended to focus on diagnostics and treatment of Lyme IACI symptoms and not to improve diagnostics and treatment for acute Lyme disease. As such, the prevention of Lyme disease ...

Prevention of infective endocarditis (IE) continues to evolve as a field. The 2007 AHA IE prevention guidelines account for dramatic changes in antibiotic prophylaxis and other medical advancements.

This report describes a 45-year-old man who developed acute bacterial endocarditis involving the aortic valve due to Klebsiella type 19. Consequent to the infection the patient developed aortic ...

Long-term morbidity and mortality caused by late sequelae such as congestive heart failure, valve incompetence, and predisposition to recurrent infectious endocarditis are becoming more important.

Objective The goal of this prospective observational study was to identify adverse events (AEs) related to the use of intravenous access sites used for infective endocarditis (IE) treatment in a ...

Endocarditis is always bad news. Standard lines of defence include rapid diagnosis, rapid initiation of antibiotic therapy and meticulous vigilance regarding complications. Despite advances in each of ...

Even though the incidence of pneumococcal endocarditis has decreased with the appearance of penicillin, morbidity and mortality rates remain elevated, which may be attributed to host factors (advanced ...

Background Native aortic and mitral valve infective endocarditis (AVE and MVE, respectively) are usually grouped together as left-sided native valve infective endocarditis (LNVE), while the ...

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

Topo Chico Mineral Water sold at Costco in Texas and Louisiana between May 20 and May 29, 2025, is being recalled due to a contamination risk.

Objective: To describe the clinical and echocardiographic outcome after mitral valve (MV) repair for active culture positive infective MV endocarditis. Patients and methods: Between 1996 and 2004, 36 ...

Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious-disease research and international collaborations. Restrictions on immigration from 19 countries could disrupt infectious ...