Microbiological and Clinicoepidemiological Profile of a Series of Patients with Infective Endocarditis at a Center in Eastern Nepal

Table 7

Comparison of culture-positive and culture-negative IE patients with history of prior antibiotic intake (n = 17).

IE patients	History of prior antibiotic intake		value
	Present, n (%)	Absent, n (%)
Culture positive (9)	6 (35.3)	3 (17.6)	0.312
Culture negative (8)	7 (41.2)	1 (5.9)