Oral step-down vs full-course intravenous antibiotic therapy for infective endocarditis: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Jose D. Cruz-Cuevas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jcruz@lacardio.org

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4593-6155

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• Julián Andrés Amador Bedoya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julián Andrés Amador Bedoya, María Paula Méndez Gaitán

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• María Paula Méndez Gaitán ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julián Andrés Amador Bedoya, María Paula Méndez Gaitán

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia

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• María Camila Ramírez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Javier González Quiroga,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Adelaida Rodríguez Villegas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

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• Antonia Sanín Reyes

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fundación Cardioinfantil – Instituto de Cardiología, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine, Universidad de La Sabana, Bogotá, Colombia

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