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Role of prolonged blood culture incubation in infective endocarditis diagnosis

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  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St S.W, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Madiha Fida, M. Rizwan Sohail, Bobbi S. Pritt & Robin Patel

  2. Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Brenda L. Dylla, Bobbi S. Pritt, Audrey N. Schuetz & Robin Patel

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Fida, M., Dylla, B.L., Sohail, M.R. et al. Role of prolonged blood culture incubation in infective endocarditis diagnosis. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 38, 197–198 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-018-3397-1

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