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Response to comment on: The infective endocarditis team: recommendations from an international working group by San Roman et al
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To the Editor,
We thank Dr San Roman and colleagues for their comment1 on our editorial.2 They suggest that all cases with endocarditis should be referred to a reference centre because the specialist expertise to monitor their progress may not be available at general hospitals.
The typical length of intravenous antibiotic therapy for patients with endocarditis is 4–6 weeks, and beds in …
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Contributors JBC wrote the draft and the other authors contributed comments or made changes that were incorporated in the final version.
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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.