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Previous Volume 357:1268 September 20, 2007 Number 12

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(Infectious Disease and Therapy. 41.) Edited by John L. Brusch. 363 pp., illustrated. New York, Informa Healthcare, 2007. $229.95. ISBN 978-0-8493-7097-7.

Infective endocarditis is an uncommon disease that remains important to clinicians in many disciplines because it is uniformly fatal if it is not diagnosed and properly treated. If a timely diagnosis is made and proper treatment is given, many patients can recover fully and return to their previous state of health. Failure to diagnose or correctly treat infective endocarditis remains a vexing problem — one that has not escaped the notice of malpractice attorneys. Furthermore, as the editor of this book, John Brusch, emphasizes in the preface, the increasing problem of resistance to antimicrobial agents and the increasing use of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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