- Bacterial Endocarditis
 - Examines preexisting conditions that elevate the risk of getting bacterial endocarditis and procedures that carry the greatest risk of endocarditis. - Bacterial Endocarditis Protection
- List the characteristics of people at high, medium, and low risk for getting bacterial (infective) endocarditis. Also provides suggestions for what to do if you're identified with a high or moderate risk of getting the disease.
- HeartPoint: Endocarditis
- Discussion of endocarditis and the need to take antibiotics prior to certain medical procedures for those at risk. Also provides diagram illustrating the heart affected with endocarditis.
- MedicineNet.com: Endocarditis
- Article about Endocarditis and the detection procedure known as the transesophagel echocardiogram (TEE). Also lists examples of the antibiotics used to treat endocarditis.
- MedlinePlus: Endocarditis
- Presents a definition, illustrations, causes and symptoms, and treatments for Endocarditis. From Medline Medical Encyclopedia.
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