Reassessing the 2023 International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Duke clinical criteria for infective endocarditis: Impact of excluding fever and updating diagnostic definitions
Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 31:ciaf737. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaf737. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Fever has traditionally been included as a minor criterion in the Duke criteria for the diagnosing infective endocarditis (IE). We evaluated the diagnostic impact of excluding fever as a minor c

