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Endocarditis holds great fascination for physicians specializing in infectious diseases, but the question to be asked is whether we need another book on the topic. In each of the major textbooks of medicine and in both of the best-known textbooks on infectious diseases, there are long chapters on infective endocarditis with hundreds of references. Nonetheless, I believe that the book by Donald Kaye and his colleagues is a useful and up-to-date compendium of what we know about infective endocarditis. This disease, though less common than pneumonia or urinary tract infections, is a costly one for the health care system in
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