TY - JOUR T1 - Antibiotic treatment of bacterial endocarditis JF - Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin JO - Drug Ther Bull SP - 49 LP - 51 DO - 10.1136/dtb.25.13.49 VL - 25 IS - 13 A2 - , Y1 - 1987/06/29 UR - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/25/13/49.abstract N2 - 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. ER -