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Endocarditis can involve the heart muscle, heart valves, or lining of the heart. Most people who develop endocarditis have heart disease of the valves.
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Men are affected about twice as often as women are. Other factors that put people at increased risk for endocarditis are congenital heart problems, heart surgery, previous episodes of endocarditis, and intravenous drug use.While there is no single...
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Other risk factors for endocarditis are congenital heart problems, heart surgery, past history of endocarditis, and intravenous drug use.Patients with acute bacterial endocarditis are generally critically ill. Patients with subacute bacterial endo...
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Bacteria are prokaryotes(unicellular organisms with no membrane-enclosed nucleus) with simple structures that typically range in size from about 0.5 to 20 micrometers.Bacteria are named according to the binomial(two-name) system of nomenclature fi...
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The bacterium Heliobacter pylori is the only one that can survive inside the human stomach. It causes gastritis and ulcers, but is generally treatable with a combination of antibiotics.
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