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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Non-typhoidal ''Salmonella'' vascular infection score}}

== Background ==

* Somewhere around 20% of patients who have bacteremia with [[non-typhoidal Salmonella]] have endovascular infection

== Clinical Criteria ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Criterion
!Score
|-
|Hypertension
| +1
|-
|Male sex
| +1
|-
|Serogroup C1
| +1
|-
|Coronary artery disease
| +1
|-
|Malignancy
| -1
|-
|Immunosuppressive therapy
| -1
|}

== Interpretation ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Score
!Risk of Endovascular Infection
!Interpretation
|-
|≤0
|2%
| rowspan="2" |Low risk; no need for further imaging
|-
|1
|11%
|-
|2
|39%
| rowspan="3" |Not low risk; should get imaging to exclude endovascular infection
|-
|3
|55%
|-
|4
|100% (but only 2 cases)
|}

== Further Reading ==

* Po-Lin Chen and others, A Simple Scoring Algorithm Predicting Vascular Infections in Adults With Nontyphoid ''Salmonella'' Bacteremia, ''Clinical Infectious Diseases'', Volume 55, Issue 2, 15 July 2012, Pages 194–200, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cis381</nowiki>