39, No. 1 (Jul., 1926), pp. 12-28 (17 pages) From the blood of a case which was clinically one of acute malignant endocarditis there were isolated on 3 successive occasions 2 bacteriologically ...

If an individual's endocarditis is caused by an infection with streptococcus bacteria, they can develop an infection in the kidneys called proliferative glomerulonephritis.

The Duke criteria for endocarditis are summarized below. These were originally proposed in 1994 to help establish the diagnosis of endocarditis. Two major and one minor criteria are needed to ...