TY - BOOK AU - Reem Mostafa Mohamed AU - Hussein Rizk , AU - Mervat Baber Eman Abdelrahman , AU - Nevieen Elrasheedy , TI - Comparative study of different molecular and microbiological diagnostic methods of infective endocarditis / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reem Mostafa Mohamed , KW - 16SrDNA PCR KW - Blood culture KW - Infective endocarditis N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - The diagnosis of infective endocarditis, particularly in blood culture negative patients have been a problem that required all the efforts to solve, as blood culture positivity was the corner stone of diagnosis. The aim of this work is to evaluate broad range PCR followed by sequencing using 16SrDNA and 18-28SrDNA and value of serological testing in the diagnosis of IE ER -