Concerning the clinical outcome of the published cases,
Salmonella endocarditis generally exhibits a poor outcome
4
(n Z 42)
1986e2002
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with an overall mortality rate of 42.5%. However, the
mortality rate of Salmonella endocarditis decreased over
time. Of the recent cases, the overall mortality rate of
13.3% in Table 2 was similar to the mortality rate of 16
clinical studies of bacterial endocarditis in Table 3.