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Comment
. 2023 Oct 13;77(8):1216-1217.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad394.

Consequences of Excluding Enterococcus faecium as a Typical Endocarditis Pathogen in the Duke-ISCVID Criteria: Endocarditis Is Endocarditis Even if the Bacterium Is Uncommon

Helena Lindberg  1   2 , Ulrika Snygg-Martin  3   4   5 , Andreas Berge  6   7 , Magnus Rasmussen  1   8
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Consequences of Excluding Enterococcus faecium as a Typical Endocarditis Pathogen in the Duke-ISCVID Criteria: Endocarditis Is Endocarditis Even if the Bacterium Is Uncommon

Helena Lindberg et al. Clin Infect Dis. .
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Consequence of the Dukes-ISCVID 2023 reclassification of E.faecium on IE, data from the Swedish Registry for Infective Endocarditis 2008–2023. Abbreviations: IE, infective endocarditis; ISCVID, International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases.
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