Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 2007 decision to no longer advise antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent viridans group streptococcal infective ...

Background A 26-year-old man with known but untreated ventricular septal defect was admitted to the emergency ward with abdominal pain, fever and weight loss. Transthoracic echocardiography showed ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 19.8 million people around the world died from heart disease in 2022, with about 85% of these deaths attributed to stroke and heart attack.

A recent publication in the Journal of the American Heart Association examines how chronic inflammation in plaques, triggered by bacteria and the immune system’s reaction to them, might contribute to ...

In this study we investigated whether varying clinical manifestations of viridans streptococcal bacteraemia in neutropenic patients are related to differences between isolates in their capacity to ...