Reply to Raoult

To the Editor—We thank Professor Raoult for his interest in our study and for his remarks, which underline the role of patients' oral status and dental hygiene in the genesis of streptococcal infective endocarditis [1, 2]. He suggests that we analyze our data to assess antibiotic prophylaxis efficacy, which we purposely did not perform for the following reasons:

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