• The specific situation of the patient. Unless otherwise provided for by national regulations,
off-label use of medication should be limited to situations where it is in the patient's interest …

Background Patients with bacteraemia caused by gram-positive bacteria are at risk for
infective endocarditis (IE). Because IE needs long antibiotic treatment and sometimes heart …

• The specific situation of the patient. Unless otherwise provided for by national regulations,
off-label use of medication should be limited to situations where it is in the patient's interest …

Background: Streptococci are a common cause of infective endocarditis (IE). We aimed to
evaluate the performance of the HANDOC score to identify patients at high-risk for IE and the …

Background Revised diagnostic criteria for infective endocarditis (IE), the 2023 Duke-ISCVID
criteria, were recently presented and need validation. Here, we compare the 2000 modified …

Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) is an increasingly recognized cause
of disease in humans. Disease manifestations range from non-invasive superficial skin and …

Background Streptococcus pyogenes bacteremia is a severe condition with high mortality.
Time to blood culture positivity (TTP) is known to predict the outcome in bacteremia with …

Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE, group C/G Streptococcus). This
change was stated in the criteria to be based on a large single retrospective registry …

Background Revised diagnostic criteria for infective endocarditis (IE), the 2023 Duke-ISCVID
criteria, were recently presented and need validation. Here, we compare the 2000 modified …

Abstract The Gram-positive cocci Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus spp., and
Enterococcus spp. are the most frequent causative organisms of bloodstream infections and …