Assertion: subacute bacterial endocarditis | /r/HasAspect | dramatic clinical course
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text: Subacute infective endocarditis, commonly caused by streptococci and enterococci, in contrast, often develops on previously damaged endocardium, has a less dramatic clinical course with an onset within 14 days of the inciting bacteremia (116), and the clinical manifestations are characteristically fever, progressive wasting and debility, and non-suppurative peripheral vascular phenomena.