The bowel, the genitourinary tract, and infective endocarditis.
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The bowel, the genitourinary tract, and infective endocarditis.
Of 582 episodes of infective endocarditis 75 were attributable to organisms normally resident in the bowel and 12 others were associated with alimentary tract operations, investigations, or disease. The mean age of the 87 patients in this particular group was higher (59.7 years) than that of all the patients with infective endocarditis (51.4 years). As far as could be ascertained 41% had no pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1984
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.51.3.339