Papers Published

1. VH Chu, DJ Sexton, CH Cabell, LB Reller, PA Pappas, RK Singh, VG Fowler Jr, GR Corey, O Aksoy, CW Woods, Repeat infective endocarditis: differentiating relapse from reinfection., Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, vol. 41 no. 3 (August, 2005), pp. 406-9, ISSN 1537-6591 [doi]
   (last updated on 2013/05/16)

   Abstract:
   Repeat infective endocarditis due to the same species can represent relapse of the initial infection or a new infection. We used time-based clinical criteria and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis-based molecular criteria to classify 13 cases of repeat infective endocarditis as either relapse or reinfection. The agreement between clinical and molecular criteria was imperfect (agreement in 10 [77%] of 13 cases).

   Keywords:
   Endocarditis, Bacterial • Enterococcus faecalis • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections • Humans • Propionibacterium acnes • Recurrence • Staphylococcus aureus • Staphylococcus epidermidis • Streptococcus sanguis • isolation & purification • microbiology • microbiology* • prevention & control • prevention & control*