%0 Journal Article %T Antibiotic treatment of bacterial endocarditis %D 1987 %R 10.1136/dtb.25.13.49 %J Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin %P 49-51 %V 25 %N 13 %X Infective endocarditis is at least as common today as it was 50 years ago but now affects rather older patients. Despite modern antibiotic therapy 15 to 30% of patients still die. A working party of the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) has recently made recommendations1 for the antibiotic treatment of streptococcal and staphylococcal endocarditis on which this article is based; advice from other specialists is also included. %U https://dtb.bmj.com/content/dtb/25/13/49.full.pdf