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JAC Advance Access originally published online on July 12, 2006
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2006 58(4):895; doi:10.1093/jac/dkl276
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Comment on: Guidelines for the prevention of endocarditis: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

David Shanson*

Department of Medical Microbiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children London WC1N 3JH, UK

*Corresponding author. Tel +44-20-7405-9200; Fax: +44-20-7813-8268; E-mail: davidsha87@hotmail.com

Keywords: BSAC guidelines , prevention , endocarditis , dental procedures

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Sir,

Appendix 1 of the latest BSAC Working Party Report on Guidelines for the Prevention of Endocarditis1 may be incorrect in implying that there is no risk from any dental procedure to patients with moderate-risk heart lesions and that prophylaxis should be stopped. To state categorically that there is no need for prophylaxis for these patients may be a step . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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