Bacterial or infective endocarditis is an infection of the heart valves or the heart’s inner lining
A dramatic decrease in child mortality in the modern Western world is due to vast improvements in hygiene, protection against infective disease and plentiful food.
He was readmitted with a tender mass in the right side of his neck, which was thought to be infective, but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin.
One area of uncertainty is the size of the infective dose of the organism required to produce disease in human beings.
Staff education should emphasize precautions regarding direct contact with potentially infective materials (e.g. hand washing).
Consequently, calves and lambs could potentially receive an infective dose from ingesting a few grams of infected livestock faeces.
Both parasite manipulation and host adaptation may explain the lack of preference for infective faeces by infected beetles if this behaviour benefits both organisms.
Infection occurs by eating contaminated muscles which contain infective larvae.
