| infective endocarditis in a tertiary-care hospital in southern israel. | during the years 1980-1994, 84 patients were treated in our institution due to suspected infective endocarditis (ie). seventy-one of these episodes occurring in 71 patients, classified definite or possible according to the duke criteria, were retrospectively analyzed in this study. there were 52 cases of native valve endocarditis, 7 cases of early prosthetic valve endocarditis, and 12 cases of late prosthetic valve endocarditis. the incidence of ie did not change significantly during the study p ... | 1998 | 10641529 |
| epidemiologic and microbiologic characteristics of occult bacteremia among febrile children in southern israel, before and after initiation of the routine antipneumococcal immunization (2005-2012). | little is known about the incidence and dynamics of occult bacteremia (ob) among infants/young children following the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (pcvs) into the national immunization program in israel in 2009-2010. the aim of this study was to characterize the epidemiologic and microbiologic picture of ob among febrile infants/children aged 3-36 months in southern israel, before and after pcvs introduction. | 2016 | 26738763 |