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Infective endocarditis: diagnosis delayed during swine flu pandemic
  1. William Moody1,
  2. Margaret Loudon2,
  3. Richard Watkin3,
  4. Richard Steeds1,
  5. Bernard Prendergast2
  1. 1Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  2. 2John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
  3. 3Good Hope Hospital, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr William Moody, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH, UK; william.moody{at}nhs.net

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.2010.107946

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    • Competing interests BP is a member of the Task Force on the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). No other competing interests declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.