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Endocarditis, Bacterial

"Endocarditis, Bacterial" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Inflammation of the ENDOCARDIUM caused by BACTERIA that entered the bloodstream. The strains of bacteria vary with predisposing factors, such as CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; or intravenous drug use.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Endocarditis, Bacterial" by people in this website by year, and whether "Endocarditis, Bacterial" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1995 and 1996 and 2013
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